WOMEN SAINTS AND MARTYRS JULY 11-JULY17
July 11
St. Olga, 969 A.D. Olga 879-969 Married in 903 to Prince Igor I or Kiev, Russia, she was a cruel and barbarous woman (she scalded her husband's murderers to death in 945 and murdered hundreds of their followers) until she was baptized at Constantinople in 957. She then requested Emperor Otto I to send missionaries to Kiev. Although St. Adalbert of Magdeburg was sent and the queen exerted great efforts the mission proved a failure as did her attempts to convert her son, Svyatoslav. Christianity was introduced however by her grandson St. Vladimir.
St. Amabilis, 634 A.D. Princess and nun. Traditionally identified as the daughter of an Anglo-Saxon king, she became a nun at Saint-Amand in Rouen, France.
July 12
St. Agnes De, 1841 A.D. Vietnamese Christian martyr. She was born in Baiden and was raised in a Christian family. Agnes was arrested and died in prison at Namdinh on July 12. Agnes was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988.
St. Veronica, 1st century. The woman of Jerusalem who wiped the face of Christ with a veil while he was on the way to Calvary. According to tradition, the cloth was imprinted with the image of Christ's face." Unfortunately, there is no historical evidence or scriptural reference to this event, but the legend of Veronica became one of the most popular in Christian lore and the veil one of the beloved relics in the Church. According to legend, Veronica bore the relic away from the Holy Land, and used it to cure Emperor Tiberius of some illness. The veil was subsequently seen in Rome in the eighth century, and was translated to St. Peter's in 1297 by command of Pope Boniface VIII. Nothing is known about Veronica, although the apocryphal Acts of Pilate identify her with the woman mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew who suffered from an issue of blood. Her name is probably derived from Veronica, as was reported by Giraldus Cambrensis. The term was thus a convenient appellation to denote the genuine relic of Veronica's veil and so differentiate from the other similar relics, such as those kept in Milan. The relic is still preserved in St. Peter's, and the memory of Veronica's act of charity is commemorated in the Stations of the Cross. While she is not included in the Roman Martyrology, she is honored with a feast day. Her symbol is the veil bearing the face of Christ and the Crown of Thorns.
St. Epiphania. A martyr known only from the Acts of St. Alphius
St. Marciana. Martyr of Toledo, Spain. There is a noted similarity to St. Marciana of Mauretania. She is patroness of Tortosa, Spain.
Bl. Monica Naisen, 1626 A.D. Martyr of Japan. Native Japanese, she was arrested for sheltering Blessed John Baptist Zola and was beheaded at Nagasaki with her husband, Blessed John Naisen. Monica was beatified in 1867.
July 13
St. Teresa de los Andes, 1920 A.D. Discalced Carmelite mystic and the first Chilean to be beatified or canonized. She was baptized Juanita Fernandez Solar, born in Santiago, Chile. On July 13.1900. Devoted to Christ from a very young age, she entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery at Los Andes. On May 7, 919. There she was given the religious name of Teresa of Jesus. She died on April 12, of the following year, having made her religious profession as a Carmelite. A model for young people, Teresa was beatified in 1987 in Santiago, Chile, and was canonized by Pope John Paul II on March 21.1993.
St. Myrope, 251 A.D. Martyr of the island of Chios, in Greece, who recovered the body of St. Isidore after his martyrdom. She and a Roman soldier, Ammianus, were arrested for recovering the sainted remains. Myrope was scourged and died in prison. Ammianus was also martyred.
July 14
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, 1680 A.D. Virgin, has not yet been canonized. Patron of the environment and ecology. Kateri was born near the town of Auriesville, New York, in the year 1656, the daughter of a Mohawk warrior. She was four years old when her mother died of smallpox. The disease also attacked Kateri and transfigured her face. She was adopted by her two aunts and an uncle. Kateri became converted as a teenager. She was baptized at the age of twenty and incurred the great hostility of her tribe. Although she had to suffer greatly for her Faith, she remained firm in it. Kateri went to the new Christian colony of Indians in Canada. Here she lived a life dedicated to prayer, penitential practices, and care for the sick and aged. Every morning, even in bitterest winter, she stood before the chapel door until it opened at four and remained there until after the last Mass. She was devoted to the Eucharist and to Jesus Crucified. She died on April 7, 1680 at the age of twenty-four. She is known as the "Lily of the Mohawks". Devotion to Kateri is responsible for establishing Native American ministries in Catholic Churches all over the United States and Canada. Kateri was declared venerable by the Catholic Church in 1943 and she was Beatified in 1980. Work is currently underway to have her Canonized by the Church. Hundreds of thousands have visited shrines to Kateri erected at both St. Francis Xavier and Caughnawaga and at her birth place at Auriesville, New York. Pilgrimages at these sites continue today. Bl. Kateri Teckakwitha is the first Native American to be declared a Blessed.
July 15
St. Edith of Polesworth. Edith of Polesworth was the sister of King Athelstan of England. She married Viking king Sihtric at York in 925, and when he died the next year, she became a Benedictine nun at Polesworth, Warwickshire, where she was noted for her holiness and may have become Abbess. She may also have been the sister of King Edgar and aunt of St. Edith of Wilton; or possibly these were two different woman of Polesworth.
Bl. Anne Jahouvey, 1851A.D. Foundress and missionary, the daughter of a wealthy farmer in Jallanges, France. Anne entered several convents but left each time, wanting to devote her life to educating the poor. In 1800, she had a vision of black children and decided to adapt her vocation to their needs. In 1807, Anne and eight other young women were given the veil in Autun, France, and the Congregation of St. Joseph of Cluny was founded. Anne founded houses in Europe, South America, and Africa. In 1828, she went to French Guyana to educate six hundred slaves who were about to be liberated. Anne Javouhey also founded houses in Tahiti and Madagascar. She died in Paris on July 15, 1851.
St. Apronia, 5th, 6th century. A nun and sister of St. Aprus. Born near Trier, Germany, Apronia was received into a convent by her brother, who was a bishop. She is recorded as dying in a convent in Troyes, France. In some lists she is called Evronie.
July 16
St. Carmen. The name Carmen is a derivation of Carmel which is one of the titles given to Our Blessed Mother, namely, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. This is the patronal feast of the Carmelites. The Order of Carmelites takes its name from Mount Carmel, which was the first place dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and where a chapel was erected in her honor before her Assumption into Heaven. July 16 is also the feast of the "Scapular of Mount Carmel". On that day in 1251, pious tradition says, the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Simon Stock, General of the Carmelites at Cambridge, England, showed him the scapular and promised supernatural favors and her special protection to his Order and to all persons who would wear the scapular. To obtain the indulgences and other benefits promised to those who wear the Carmelite scapular, a person must be invested by a priest who has the requisite faculties and must lead a consistent Christian life.
St. Mary Magdalen Postel. Mary was born at Barfleur, France, on November 28 and baptized Julia Frances Catherine. She was educated at the Benedictine convent at Valognes, and when eighteen she opened a school for girls at Barfleur. When the French Revolution broke out, the revolutionaries closed the school and she became a leader in Barfleur against the constitutional priests and sheltered fugitive priests in her home, where Mass was celebrated. When the concordat of 1801 between Napoleon and the Holy See brought peace to the French Church, she worked in the field of religious education, and in 1807, at Cherbourg, she and three other teachers took religious vows before Abbe Cabart, who had encouraged her in her work - the beginning of the Sisters of the Christian Schools of Mercy. She was named superior and took the name Mary Magdalen. During the next few years the community encountered great difficulties and was forced to move several times before settling at Tamersville in 1815. It was not until she obtained the abbey of St. Sauveur le Vicomte that the congregation finally began to expand and flourish. She died on July 16 at St. Sauveur, venerated for her holiness and miracles, and was canonized in 1925.
St. Marie St. Henry. A member of the Martyrs of Orange.
St. Reineldis, 680 A.D. Martyr, also called Raineldis and Reinildis. The daughter of Count Witger and St. Arnalberga, she tried unsuccessfully to join her father at Lobbes Abbey, in France, when he and her mother both decided to enter the religious life. After a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she returned home and devoted herself to a life of charitable work at Saintes. She was put to death with Grimoald, a deacon, and Gundulf, her servant, by barbarian invaders probably at Kontich, in Antwerp, Belgium. Her sister was St. Gudula.
July 17
Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne, 1794 A.D. Sixteen Carmelites caught up in the French Revolution and martyred. When the revolution started in 1789, a group of twenty-one discalced Carmelites lived in a monastery in Compiegne France, founded in 1641. The monastery was ordered closed in 1790 by the Revolutionary government and the nuns were disbanded. Sixteen of the nuns were accused of living in a religious community in 1794. They were arrested on June 22 and imprisoned in a Visitation convent in Compiegne There they openly resumed their religious life. On July 12, 1794, the Carmelites were taken to Paris and five days later were sentenced to death. They went to the guillotine singing the Salve Regina. They were beatified in 1906 by Pope St. Pius X. The Carmelites were: Marie Claude Brard; Madeleine Brideau, the sub prior; Maire Croissy, grandniece of Colbert Marie Dufour; Marie Hanisset; Marie Meunier, a novice; Rose de Neufville Annette Pebras; Anne Piedcourt: Madeleine Lidoine, the prioress; Angelique Roussel; Catherine Soiron and Therese Soiron, both extern sisters, natives of Compiegne and blood sisters: Anne Mary Thouret; Marie Trezelle; and Elizabeth Verolot. The martyrdom of the nuns was immortalized by the composer Francois Poulenc in his famous opera Dialogues des Carmelites.
St. Marcellina. Marcellina was the daughter of the prefect of Gaul and sister of St. Ambrose. She was born at Trier, Gaul. She went to Rome with her family when she was quite young, and was consecrated to a religious life by Pope Liberius in 353. She lived a life of great austerity, which St. Ambrose tried to persuade her to mitigate when she went to Milan to visit him. It was to Marcellina that he dedicated his treatise on virginity, Libri III de virginibus ad Marcellinam.
Bl. Antoinette Roussel, 1794 A.D. One of the Carmelite nuns martyred in Paris by the French Revolution. Sixteen Cannelites were guillotined in Paris, ascending the scaffolds while singing Salve Regina. They had been arrested for living in a religious community. On July 12 the Carmelites were taken to Paris and martyred on July 17. In 1906, these nuns were beatified.
St. Theodota, 735 A.D. Byzantine martyr. A lady of Constantinople, modern Istanbul, Turkey, she was martyred for hiding three icons from imperial officials during the Iconoclast period of Emperor Leo III the Isaurian.
Bl. Frances Brideau, 1794 A.D. A member of the martyred Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne. She was executed with her fellow nuns by authorities of the French Revolution.
Bl. Juliette Verolot, 1794 A.D. One of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne, France. She was called Sister St. Francis Xavier, and she and her Carmelite community were guillotined at Compiegne. Pope St. Pius X beatified her in 1906.
St. Madeleine Brideau The sub-prioress among the Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne. With her fellow sisters, she was executed by officials during the French Revolution. In her religious life, she was known as Sister St. Louis.
St. Madeleine Lidoine. The prioress of the Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne who were martyred during the French Revolution. In her religious life, she was known as Mother Therese of St. Augustine.
St. Marie Claude Brard. A member of the martyred Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne. They were executed by officials of the French revolutionary government. In her religious life, Marie Claude was known as Sister Euphrasia of the Immaculate Conception.
St. Marie Croissy. One of the Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne executed during the French Revolution. Known in her religious life as Sister Henrietta of Jesus, she was the grandniece of the famed French Minister Colbert.
St. Marie Dufour. A member of the Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne who were martyred during the French Revolution. In her religious life, she was known by the name Sister St. Martha.
St. Marie Hanisset. A Carmelite of the group of Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne. With the other sisters, she was martyred during the French Revolution. In her order, she was known as Sister Therese of the Heart of Mary.
St. Marie Meunier. A member of the martyred Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne. Known as Sister Constance, she was a novice at the time of her death.
St. Marie Trezelle. One of the martyred Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne who were executed by officials of the French revolutionary government. In her religious life, she was known as Sister Therese of St. Ignatius.
Bl. Rose Chretien, 1794 A.D. One of the Carmelites of Compiegue, France, born in 1711. She was originally from Evreux, and after becoming a widow, entered the Carmelites at Compiegne. With her fellow sisters, she was guillotined by French revolutionaries at Paris.
Martyrs of Scillitan. Twelve martyrs, seven men and five women, who suffered in Scillitan, Roman Africa. They are listed as Acyllinus, Donata, Felix, Cythinus, Generosa, Januaria, Lactantius, Narzales, Secunda, Speratus, Vestina, and Veturius. Their Acts are extant. St. Augustine preached three sermons in their honor.
St. Olga, 969 A.D. Olga 879-969 Married in 903 to Prince Igor I or Kiev, Russia, she was a cruel and barbarous woman (she scalded her husband's murderers to death in 945 and murdered hundreds of their followers) until she was baptized at Constantinople in 957. She then requested Emperor Otto I to send missionaries to Kiev. Although St. Adalbert of Magdeburg was sent and the queen exerted great efforts the mission proved a failure as did her attempts to convert her son, Svyatoslav. Christianity was introduced however by her grandson St. Vladimir.
St. Amabilis, 634 A.D. Princess and nun. Traditionally identified as the daughter of an Anglo-Saxon king, she became a nun at Saint-Amand in Rouen, France.
July 12
St. Agnes De, 1841 A.D. Vietnamese Christian martyr. She was born in Baiden and was raised in a Christian family. Agnes was arrested and died in prison at Namdinh on July 12. Agnes was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988.
St. Veronica, 1st century. The woman of Jerusalem who wiped the face of Christ with a veil while he was on the way to Calvary. According to tradition, the cloth was imprinted with the image of Christ's face." Unfortunately, there is no historical evidence or scriptural reference to this event, but the legend of Veronica became one of the most popular in Christian lore and the veil one of the beloved relics in the Church. According to legend, Veronica bore the relic away from the Holy Land, and used it to cure Emperor Tiberius of some illness. The veil was subsequently seen in Rome in the eighth century, and was translated to St. Peter's in 1297 by command of Pope Boniface VIII. Nothing is known about Veronica, although the apocryphal Acts of Pilate identify her with the woman mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew who suffered from an issue of blood. Her name is probably derived from Veronica, as was reported by Giraldus Cambrensis. The term was thus a convenient appellation to denote the genuine relic of Veronica's veil and so differentiate from the other similar relics, such as those kept in Milan. The relic is still preserved in St. Peter's, and the memory of Veronica's act of charity is commemorated in the Stations of the Cross. While she is not included in the Roman Martyrology, she is honored with a feast day. Her symbol is the veil bearing the face of Christ and the Crown of Thorns.
St. Epiphania. A martyr known only from the Acts of St. Alphius
St. Marciana. Martyr of Toledo, Spain. There is a noted similarity to St. Marciana of Mauretania. She is patroness of Tortosa, Spain.
Bl. Monica Naisen, 1626 A.D. Martyr of Japan. Native Japanese, she was arrested for sheltering Blessed John Baptist Zola and was beheaded at Nagasaki with her husband, Blessed John Naisen. Monica was beatified in 1867.
July 13
St. Teresa de los Andes, 1920 A.D. Discalced Carmelite mystic and the first Chilean to be beatified or canonized. She was baptized Juanita Fernandez Solar, born in Santiago, Chile. On July 13.1900. Devoted to Christ from a very young age, she entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery at Los Andes. On May 7, 919. There she was given the religious name of Teresa of Jesus. She died on April 12, of the following year, having made her religious profession as a Carmelite. A model for young people, Teresa was beatified in 1987 in Santiago, Chile, and was canonized by Pope John Paul II on March 21.1993.
St. Myrope, 251 A.D. Martyr of the island of Chios, in Greece, who recovered the body of St. Isidore after his martyrdom. She and a Roman soldier, Ammianus, were arrested for recovering the sainted remains. Myrope was scourged and died in prison. Ammianus was also martyred.
July 14
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, 1680 A.D. Virgin, has not yet been canonized. Patron of the environment and ecology. Kateri was born near the town of Auriesville, New York, in the year 1656, the daughter of a Mohawk warrior. She was four years old when her mother died of smallpox. The disease also attacked Kateri and transfigured her face. She was adopted by her two aunts and an uncle. Kateri became converted as a teenager. She was baptized at the age of twenty and incurred the great hostility of her tribe. Although she had to suffer greatly for her Faith, she remained firm in it. Kateri went to the new Christian colony of Indians in Canada. Here she lived a life dedicated to prayer, penitential practices, and care for the sick and aged. Every morning, even in bitterest winter, she stood before the chapel door until it opened at four and remained there until after the last Mass. She was devoted to the Eucharist and to Jesus Crucified. She died on April 7, 1680 at the age of twenty-four. She is known as the "Lily of the Mohawks". Devotion to Kateri is responsible for establishing Native American ministries in Catholic Churches all over the United States and Canada. Kateri was declared venerable by the Catholic Church in 1943 and she was Beatified in 1980. Work is currently underway to have her Canonized by the Church. Hundreds of thousands have visited shrines to Kateri erected at both St. Francis Xavier and Caughnawaga and at her birth place at Auriesville, New York. Pilgrimages at these sites continue today. Bl. Kateri Teckakwitha is the first Native American to be declared a Blessed.
July 15
St. Edith of Polesworth. Edith of Polesworth was the sister of King Athelstan of England. She married Viking king Sihtric at York in 925, and when he died the next year, she became a Benedictine nun at Polesworth, Warwickshire, where she was noted for her holiness and may have become Abbess. She may also have been the sister of King Edgar and aunt of St. Edith of Wilton; or possibly these were two different woman of Polesworth.
Bl. Anne Jahouvey, 1851A.D. Foundress and missionary, the daughter of a wealthy farmer in Jallanges, France. Anne entered several convents but left each time, wanting to devote her life to educating the poor. In 1800, she had a vision of black children and decided to adapt her vocation to their needs. In 1807, Anne and eight other young women were given the veil in Autun, France, and the Congregation of St. Joseph of Cluny was founded. Anne founded houses in Europe, South America, and Africa. In 1828, she went to French Guyana to educate six hundred slaves who were about to be liberated. Anne Javouhey also founded houses in Tahiti and Madagascar. She died in Paris on July 15, 1851.
St. Apronia, 5th, 6th century. A nun and sister of St. Aprus. Born near Trier, Germany, Apronia was received into a convent by her brother, who was a bishop. She is recorded as dying in a convent in Troyes, France. In some lists she is called Evronie.
July 16
St. Carmen. The name Carmen is a derivation of Carmel which is one of the titles given to Our Blessed Mother, namely, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. This is the patronal feast of the Carmelites. The Order of Carmelites takes its name from Mount Carmel, which was the first place dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and where a chapel was erected in her honor before her Assumption into Heaven. July 16 is also the feast of the "Scapular of Mount Carmel". On that day in 1251, pious tradition says, the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Simon Stock, General of the Carmelites at Cambridge, England, showed him the scapular and promised supernatural favors and her special protection to his Order and to all persons who would wear the scapular. To obtain the indulgences and other benefits promised to those who wear the Carmelite scapular, a person must be invested by a priest who has the requisite faculties and must lead a consistent Christian life.
St. Mary Magdalen Postel. Mary was born at Barfleur, France, on November 28 and baptized Julia Frances Catherine. She was educated at the Benedictine convent at Valognes, and when eighteen she opened a school for girls at Barfleur. When the French Revolution broke out, the revolutionaries closed the school and she became a leader in Barfleur against the constitutional priests and sheltered fugitive priests in her home, where Mass was celebrated. When the concordat of 1801 between Napoleon and the Holy See brought peace to the French Church, she worked in the field of religious education, and in 1807, at Cherbourg, she and three other teachers took religious vows before Abbe Cabart, who had encouraged her in her work - the beginning of the Sisters of the Christian Schools of Mercy. She was named superior and took the name Mary Magdalen. During the next few years the community encountered great difficulties and was forced to move several times before settling at Tamersville in 1815. It was not until she obtained the abbey of St. Sauveur le Vicomte that the congregation finally began to expand and flourish. She died on July 16 at St. Sauveur, venerated for her holiness and miracles, and was canonized in 1925.
St. Marie St. Henry. A member of the Martyrs of Orange.
St. Reineldis, 680 A.D. Martyr, also called Raineldis and Reinildis. The daughter of Count Witger and St. Arnalberga, she tried unsuccessfully to join her father at Lobbes Abbey, in France, when he and her mother both decided to enter the religious life. After a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she returned home and devoted herself to a life of charitable work at Saintes. She was put to death with Grimoald, a deacon, and Gundulf, her servant, by barbarian invaders probably at Kontich, in Antwerp, Belgium. Her sister was St. Gudula.
July 17
Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne, 1794 A.D. Sixteen Carmelites caught up in the French Revolution and martyred. When the revolution started in 1789, a group of twenty-one discalced Carmelites lived in a monastery in Compiegne France, founded in 1641. The monastery was ordered closed in 1790 by the Revolutionary government and the nuns were disbanded. Sixteen of the nuns were accused of living in a religious community in 1794. They were arrested on June 22 and imprisoned in a Visitation convent in Compiegne There they openly resumed their religious life. On July 12, 1794, the Carmelites were taken to Paris and five days later were sentenced to death. They went to the guillotine singing the Salve Regina. They were beatified in 1906 by Pope St. Pius X. The Carmelites were: Marie Claude Brard; Madeleine Brideau, the sub prior; Maire Croissy, grandniece of Colbert Marie Dufour; Marie Hanisset; Marie Meunier, a novice; Rose de Neufville Annette Pebras; Anne Piedcourt: Madeleine Lidoine, the prioress; Angelique Roussel; Catherine Soiron and Therese Soiron, both extern sisters, natives of Compiegne and blood sisters: Anne Mary Thouret; Marie Trezelle; and Elizabeth Verolot. The martyrdom of the nuns was immortalized by the composer Francois Poulenc in his famous opera Dialogues des Carmelites.
St. Marcellina. Marcellina was the daughter of the prefect of Gaul and sister of St. Ambrose. She was born at Trier, Gaul. She went to Rome with her family when she was quite young, and was consecrated to a religious life by Pope Liberius in 353. She lived a life of great austerity, which St. Ambrose tried to persuade her to mitigate when she went to Milan to visit him. It was to Marcellina that he dedicated his treatise on virginity, Libri III de virginibus ad Marcellinam.
Bl. Antoinette Roussel, 1794 A.D. One of the Carmelite nuns martyred in Paris by the French Revolution. Sixteen Cannelites were guillotined in Paris, ascending the scaffolds while singing Salve Regina. They had been arrested for living in a religious community. On July 12 the Carmelites were taken to Paris and martyred on July 17. In 1906, these nuns were beatified.
St. Theodota, 735 A.D. Byzantine martyr. A lady of Constantinople, modern Istanbul, Turkey, she was martyred for hiding three icons from imperial officials during the Iconoclast period of Emperor Leo III the Isaurian.
Bl. Frances Brideau, 1794 A.D. A member of the martyred Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne. She was executed with her fellow nuns by authorities of the French Revolution.
Bl. Juliette Verolot, 1794 A.D. One of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne, France. She was called Sister St. Francis Xavier, and she and her Carmelite community were guillotined at Compiegne. Pope St. Pius X beatified her in 1906.
St. Madeleine Brideau The sub-prioress among the Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne. With her fellow sisters, she was executed by officials during the French Revolution. In her religious life, she was known as Sister St. Louis.
St. Madeleine Lidoine. The prioress of the Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne who were martyred during the French Revolution. In her religious life, she was known as Mother Therese of St. Augustine.
St. Marie Claude Brard. A member of the martyred Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne. They were executed by officials of the French revolutionary government. In her religious life, Marie Claude was known as Sister Euphrasia of the Immaculate Conception.
St. Marie Croissy. One of the Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne executed during the French Revolution. Known in her religious life as Sister Henrietta of Jesus, she was the grandniece of the famed French Minister Colbert.
St. Marie Dufour. A member of the Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne who were martyred during the French Revolution. In her religious life, she was known by the name Sister St. Martha.
St. Marie Hanisset. A Carmelite of the group of Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne. With the other sisters, she was martyred during the French Revolution. In her order, she was known as Sister Therese of the Heart of Mary.
St. Marie Meunier. A member of the martyred Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne. Known as Sister Constance, she was a novice at the time of her death.
St. Marie Trezelle. One of the martyred Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne who were executed by officials of the French revolutionary government. In her religious life, she was known as Sister Therese of St. Ignatius.
Bl. Rose Chretien, 1794 A.D. One of the Carmelites of Compiegue, France, born in 1711. She was originally from Evreux, and after becoming a widow, entered the Carmelites at Compiegne. With her fellow sisters, she was guillotined by French revolutionaries at Paris.
Martyrs of Scillitan. Twelve martyrs, seven men and five women, who suffered in Scillitan, Roman Africa. They are listed as Acyllinus, Donata, Felix, Cythinus, Generosa, Januaria, Lactantius, Narzales, Secunda, Speratus, Vestina, and Veturius. Their Acts are extant. St. Augustine preached three sermons in their honor.
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