217 years ago yesterday

[Kook]

popinainteasy.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-quell-terror.html

The Carmelite martyrs of the French Revolution died. I’d never seen the video clip before. Very moving.

 

[stevegravy]

Thanks for the post. We must not forget a cease praying for all the martyrs that are suffering still today.

 

[catharina]

Many religious Sisters were martyred during the French revolution.
Most of them died from beheading after weeks/months in custody.

See link for more:

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[JimG]

Ah yes, the beginnings of the “Enlightenment.” The great benefits to be conferred by the Revolution: Equality, Liberty, Fraternity, and the beheading of nuns, just because they were, well, not enlightened.

 

[catharina]

Ah yes, the beginnings of the “Enlightenment.” The great benefits to be conferred by the Revolution: Equality, Liberty, Fraternity, and the beheading of nuns, just because they were, well, not enlightened.

Yep - that darn old loyalty oath -
attempting to put nation above God.