Blessed Marie Dufour

Also known as

Sister Saint Martha

17 July

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Discalced Carmelite lay sister, joining the community in 1772. One of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne, killed in the anti–Christian persecutions of the French Revolution.

Born

2 October 1741 in Bannes, Sarthe, France

Died

guillotined on 17 July 1794 at the Place du Trône Renversé (modern Place de la Nation) in Paris, France
before their execution they knelt and chanted the “Veni Creator”, as at a profession, after which they all renewed aloud their baptismal and religious vows
interred in a deep sand-pit about thirty feet square in a cemetery at Picpus
as this sand-pit was the receptacle of the bodies of 1,298 victims of the French Revolution, there seems to be no hope of their relics being recovered