Sixteen Carmelite sisters who were executed by guillotine in Paris on 17 July 1794, during the blood-soaked and chaotic phase ...

The story is not widely known outside of France, but those who find it are greatly moved. The women’s “crime” was trying to ...

On July 17, 1794, at 8:00 p.m., the nuns were executed in the Place du Trône, today's Place de la Nation, after being ...

Before meeting her death, each sister knelt before their prioress who gave them permission to die. The prioress was the last ...

Pope Francis has declared as saints 16 Carmelite martyrs executed by guillotine during the French Revolution and confirmed ...

Travel back in time to late 18th century France and follow the development of the French Revolution. What were the underlying causes for the revolution? What was the Reign of Terror? Who was ...

The sixteen Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, who during the Reign of Terror in France shortly after the French Revolution (1789) ...

Students of the French Revolution know him as an important financier and administrator in the final ... to his untimely death on the guillotine as one of the Reign of Terror's most famous victims on ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has declared as saints 16 Carmelite martyrs executed by guillotine during the French ...