Before meeting her death, each sister knelt before their prioress who gave them permission to die. The prioress was the last to be executed, her hymn continuing until the blade fell.
Posted on 12/19/2024 11:57:09 AM PST by Beowulf9
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 the rare procedure of “equipollent canonization.”
Mother Teresa of Saint Augustine and her 15 companions, who were guillotined in Paris as they sang hymns of praise, can immediately be venerated worldwide as saints in the Catholic Church.
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Before meeting her death, each sister knelt before their prioress who gave them permission to die. The prioress was the last to be executed, her hymn continuing until the blade fell.
Every nation has a period of frenzied, insane, ideological “cultural revolution” where the revolutionaries attempt to destroy the past and tradition. They all seem to follow a similar pattern - from Cromwell’s England, to the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution to Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China.
Let us pray that the USA may never be subject to such insanity.
From the article: “Like the usual canonization process, equipollent canonization is an invocation of papal infallibility in which the Pope declares that a person is among the saints in heaven.” While the majority view of theologians supports the infallibility of canonizations, this has not been explicitly defined or universally accepted. (I wonder about about Pope Francis’ canonization of Paul VI, for example.) (Of course, if he is not actually the pope, then there’s no conflict with the majority view.)
The fidelity of the sisters is unquestionable and admirable. No argument there. But what is the purpose of canonizing them (or anyone) for veneration?
Where does this practice come from? And when did it begin?
I happen to be watching it right now.
Those poor Sisters.
“Mother, permission to die?”
That community offered up their sacrifices for the liberation of France from the Reign of Terror. Their execution caused the French people to finally wake up and bring and end to it.
Some revolution, half of France murders the other half, sucks to be in one half, only in France.
Good post. We have been on the edge of that monstrous evil taking hold in America.
The Seattle CHOP (section of the city forbidden to citizens to enter except for antifa and BLM) was a reference to the chopping off of heads of the enemies in the French Revolution.
And it was in 1960s and 70s America that American college students held up Mao’s Little Red Book to try for an overthrow here. Mao’s believers in China were in charge of murdering millions of people.
We must continue to pray that these evils are held off.
They tried it in France in May 1968. The trade unionists refused to join in, and the gendarmes put it down with minimal difficulty.
When a revolution starts the calendar over from Year Zero, as revolutionary France and Pol Pot's Cambodian revolution did, it's a sign of mass psychosis.
I think we have plenty of people exhibiting ‘mass psychosis’ today, in the US.
Dodged a revolutionary bullet. Then those 1960s and 70s types grew up. But only chronologically.
Or if it does unfortunately come to pass, not for a few thousand years.
Far too many.
It they weren’t saints the day they died, they aren’t saints now...
The Song of the Scaffold tells their story...
They ended the Reign of Terror.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Compiegne
Amen.
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