Pope Francis on Wednesday decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne officially saints. It was a rare decision, in that no one in the Church disagreed with it. In order to understand why the decision ...
The film’s death scene is enhanced by the glorious singing of the opera singers who play the nuns — but the glories of the life to come belong to these martyrs, who were willing to die for their Lord, ...
Their voices sang out from the scaffold as they went to their deaths on July 17, 1794, during the Reign of Terror, the frightening period of the French Revolution that oversaw the execution of at ...