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SUMMARY:Vigils: Bl. Virgin Martyrs of Orange
DESCRIPTION:THE MARTYRS OF ORANGE\n◊◊◊\nThe Martyrs of Orange were a group of 32 beatified religious women\nmartyred at Orange\, France\, during the French Revolution between July 5 and\n26\, 1794. Two were Cistercian nuns from Avignon\, the others were from\nBollene\, near Avignon. The others…included 16 Ursulines\, 13 Sacramentine\nnuns and one Benedictine nun. For refusing to take the oath of Liberty of the\nnew regime\, the nuns were expelled from their convents\, arrested and held in\nLa Cure prison in Orange. These and other nuns formed a kind of religious\ncommunity and spent hours in prayer and religious exercises daily until\ncondemned for fanaticism and superstition… \nThe martyrs of the prison ships of Rochefort died in 1794\, the same year\nas the nuns of Orange\, and were declared martyrs in 1925. On October 1\, 1995\,\nPope John Paul II beatified three other Cistercians at the same time as 61 other\npriests and religious of various Congregations. They were not the only\nCistercians who died of starvation or illness in the slave ships or on the islands\noff the shore of La Rochelle. Our Menology mentions several others. Yet for the\ncause of beatification\, only 64 among the 547 who died\, were retained as\nmartyrs\, namely\, those who were explicitly mentioned in the list of the\ndeported. \nThe three Cistercians were: Br Elias Desgardin\, Dom Paul Charles\, and\nDom Gervais Brunel. Br. Elias Desgardin was a lay Brother from Sept Fons. He\ncared for his sick companions. A martyr of charity\, he died of typhoid fever at\nthe age of forty-four. He was buried on the island of Aix… Dom Paul Charles\nwas the Prior of Sept Fons. Detained on the ship Les Deux Associes\, he died at\nthe age of fifty-one\, esteemed and loved by his companions in captivity. He was\nburied on the island called Madame. The third beatified martyr was Dom\nGervais Brunel\, Superior of La Trappe\, who died at the age of fifty in a\nprovisional hospital on the island Madame. Stricken with typhoid fever\, he\narrived there on the point of dying\, dying on the very day of the disembarkment. \nOne of them made a statement that can be applied to all these beatified\nreligious and to many others condemned to die on the prison ships: “If we are\nthe most unhappy of men\, we are also the happiest of Christians”. \n 
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