Blessed Marie-Françoise de Croissy, Discalced Carmelite nun, purported on 22 February 1764. Prioress from 1779 to 1785. One of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne, murdered in the counter Christian abuses of the French Revolution. Guillotined on July 17, 1794, at the Place du Trône Renversé (current Place de la Nation) in Paris, France. Before their execution they stooped and recited the “Veni Creator”, as at a calling, after which they all restored out loud their baptismal and religious promises.
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