Pope Francis has officially declared the 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, as saints through ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne officially saints. It was a rare decision, in that no one in the Church disagreed with it. In order to understand why the decision ...

Their voices sang out from the scaffold as they went to their deaths on July 17, 1794, during the Reign of Terror, the frightening period of the French Revolution that oversaw the execution of at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stained glass with a depiction of the martyred nuns, Saint Honoré d'Eylau Church, Paris. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The Martyrs ...

BLESSED Martyrs of Compiègne were guillotined for their faith on July 17, 1794. VATICAN—Pope Francis has declared the 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne ...

The community of Carmelite sisters in Compiègne in northern France is set to close down owing to their declining number. A diocese communiqué on April 21 announced the closure of the Carmelite ...

Serving as the basis for French composer Francis Poulenc's opera was the true story of the martyrs of Compiègne: during the French Revolution, the terreur and the Jacobin dictatorship's antagonism ...