“The Carmelites of Compiègne radiate beyond the dioceserecalls theCatholic Church in Oise. Hence the need for an extended capacity. ” It is at King’s Great Staries that the Grace action celebration for the canonization of the Compiègne Carmelites Thursday May 8 at 2:30 p.m. will take place.
“All those who want to come together will be welcome,” says Monsignor Jacques Benoit-Gonnin, bishop of Beauvais. The Saint-Paul des Sablons church, with a capacity of around 900 places, is the largest in Compiègne. It was therefore necessary to find a link sufficiently spacious to welcome the faithful. “With the agreement of Philippe Marini”, president of the agglomeration of the Compiègne region.
A national celebration in Paris on September 13
On December 18, 2024, Pope Francis signed the canonization decree of the sixteen carmelites of Compiègne. They have become holy by a team of equipment, that is to say without recognition of a miracle. It is, with this celebration of thanksgiving, to “thank” the Church, in the presence of the Carmelites who will leave their convent in Jonquières that day.
This celebration is the fruit of a “concertation between the general postulation and the order of the unleashed carmes, the community of the Carmelites of Jonquières, the archbishop of Paris and the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis.
A national celebration will take place in Paris on September 13.
Martyrs of Catholic faith
When the French Revolution broke out, in 1789, the community of Carmel de Compiègne has 21 nuns. Carmelites are criticized for maintaining their community life. But also to maintain a counter-revolutionary correspondence, to have images of Louis XVI, and images and hymns in the Sacred Heart. Sixteen of them will rise on the scaffold. The Revolutionary Tribunal condemned them to death and guillotined on July 17, 1794, accusing them of “fanaticism and sedition”.
Condemned to death on July 17, 1794, “after an expeditious and unfair trial”, they were guillotined the same evening, place de la nation in Paris. They always rest at the Picpus cemetery in a common pit, in the garden of the nuns.
Pope Pius X had beat them in 1906. Beatification being a preliminary step to canonization. And allowing a person to be called “blessed”. They are martyrs of Catholic faith. Their sacrifice represents an act of prayer for peace and the end of terror.
