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On this day in 1794, the French Revolution guillotined sixteen Carmelite nuns for being nuns
They walked to the scaffold singing the Veni Creator Spiritus.
Each one renewed her vows before mounting the guillotine. The prioress, Mother Teresa of St Augustine, went last. She waited until every sister was dead before she knelt
Robespierre was arrested ten days later. The Terror ended almost immediately after.
The nuns were canonised in 1906.
The ideology that killed them is now taught in your local parish church.

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