{"id":867,"date":"2022-03-04T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:41:54","slug":"pope-francis-to-canonize-the-16-carmelite-martyrs-of-the-french-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis to canonize the 16 Carmelite Martyrs of the French Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought these women had already been canonized.<\/p>\n

Here' a short article – the Reign of Terror<\/a> ended ten days after the Carmelites were guillotined. Hit the link for the whole story.<\/p>\n

Their voices sang out from the scaffold as they went to their death on July 17, 1794, during the Reign of Terror, the frightening period of the French Revolution which oversaw the execution of at least 17,000 people.<\/a><\/p>\n

At the request<\/a> of the bishops of France and the Order of Carmelites Discalced (OCD), Pope Francis agreed on Feb. 22 to open a special process known in the Catholic Church as \u201cequipollent canonization\u201d to raise the 16 Carmelite martyrs of Compi\u00e8gne to the altars.<\/p>\n

Equipollent, or "equivalent," canonization is, like the usual canonization process, an invocation of papal infallibility where the Pope declares that a person is among the saints in heaven. It avoids the formal process of canonization as well as the ceremony, since it occurs by the publication of a papal bull. <\/p>\n

Longtime veneration of the saint and demonstrated heroic virtue are still required, and though no modern miracle is necessary, the fame of miracles that occurred before or after his or her death is taken into account after study is made by the historical section of the Congregation of the Saints.<\/p>\n

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The long-revered martyrs include 11 nuns, three lay sisters and two externs. <\/p>\n

Inspired by the spontaneous action of the lone novice among them \u2014 and the first and youngest to die \u2014 each of the 16 members of a Carmelite monastery in Compi\u00e8gne intoned the Laudate Dominum<\/em> as she mounted the steps up to the guillotine. The convent prioress granted the solemn permission to die to each sister who, kneeling before her just after they kissed the statue of the Blessed Virgin in her hands, mounted the steps of the scaffold. The prioress was the last to die, her voice resounding until the metal seared head and body.<\/p>\n

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I thought these women had already been canonized. Here' a short article – the Reign of Terror ended ten days after the Carmelites were guillotined. Hit the link for the whole story. Their voices sang out from the scaffold as they went to their death on July 17, 1794, during the Reign of Terror, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7393,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/7393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}