> [[09-figures|↑ Back to TOC]] # Saint Teresa of Saint Augustine Lidoine and Companions, Martyrs of Compiègne ## Biography As the French Revolution entered its worst days, sixteen Discalced Carmelites from the Monastery of the Incarnation in Compiègne offered their lives as a sacrifice to God, making reparation to him and imploring peace for the Church. On June 24th, 1794, they were arrested and thrown into prison. Their happiness and resignation were so evident that those around them were also encouraged to draw strength from God's love. They were condemned to death for their fidelity to the Church and their religious life and for their devotion to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Singing hymns, and having renewed their vows before the superior, Teresa of St. Augustine, they were put to death in Paris on July 17th, 1794. They were beatified by Pope St. Pius X on May 13, 1906. Their equipollent canonization was decreed on December 18, 2024. *Source: OCD Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours, July 17* ## Notes - Sixteen OCD nuns of the Monastery of the Incarnation, Compiègne; guillotined Paris, July 17, 1794 - Teresa of Saint Augustine Lidoine (secular name: Madeleine-Claudine Ledoine): prioress; born Paris, Sept. 22, 1752 - Mother St Louis (Marie-Anne Brideau): sub-prioress; born Belfort, Dec. 7, 1752 - Sister Constance (Marie-Geneviève Meunier): novice; born St Denis, May 28, 1765 - Sister St Francis Xavier (Julie Vérolot): lay sister; born Laignes, Jan. 11, 1764 - Sister Mary of the Holy Ghost (Angélique Roussel): lay sister; born Fresnes, Aug. 4, 1742 - Sister St Martha (Marie Dufour): lay sister; born Beaune, Oct. 1, 1742 - Sister of Jesus Crucified (Marie-Anne Piedcourt): choir nun; born 1715 - Sister Teresa of St Ignatius (Marie-Gabrielle Trézel): choir nun; born Compiègne, Apr. 4, 1743 - Mother Henriette of Jesus (Marie-Françoise de Croissy): former prioress - Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection (Anne-Marie-Madeleine Thouret): choir nun - Sister Julia Louisa of Jesus (Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville): choir nun - Sister Teresa of the Holy Heart of Mary (Marie-Antoinette Hanisset): choir nun - Sister Mary Henrietta of Providence (Anne Petras): extern lay sister - Catherine Soiron: extern lay sister - Teresa Soiron: extern lay sister - Beatified May 27, 1906 by Pope St Pius X; equivalently canonized December 18, 2024 - Feast: [[07-17-st-teresa-of-st-augustine|July 17, Saint Teresa of Saint Augustine and Companions]]