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The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries).They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror, at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on 17 July 1794, and are venerated as martyr saints of the Catholic Church.
Sister Death (Spanish: Hermana Muerte) [1] is a 2023 Spanish supernatural horror film directed by Paco Plaza and written by Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Plaza which stars Aria Bedmar. A prequel to the 2017 film Verónica , the plot follows the paranormal experiences of a novice (Bedmar) enrolled as a teacher in a convent operating as a girls ...
Léonie Martin, also known as Sister Françoise-Thérèse, VHM (3 June 1863 – 17 June 1941) was a French Catholic nun who led a cloistered life as a member of the Visitation Sisters. She was the daughter of Saints Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin and an elder sister of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux .
The women, aged 69 to 99, were all members of a Felician Sisters convent in Livonia, Michigan 13 Religious Sisters Have Died From COVID-19 at a Single Convent in Michigan Skip to main content
In August 1895 the four Martin sisters were joined in the convent by their cousin, Marie Guerin, who became Sister Marie of the Eucharist. Léonie, after several attempts, became Sister Françoise-Thérèse, a nun in the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary in Caen, where she died in 1941. [74]
Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, one of two aging nuns who were fighting the sale of the 8-acre convent, died on Friday,
In 1625, Orsola and her sisters moved to the newly founded convent. Her father died a few months after the convent was established and left drawings, set squares and other art tools for his daughters. [5] Before his death, he had fostered painting as a vocation for the Ursulines of Moncalvo. [4]
Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938 [1]) was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled " Faustina ", had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy , therefore she is sometimes called the ...