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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Bl Virgin Martyrs of Orange
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “The Catholic Encyclopedia” on \nTHE 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 were from Bollene\, near Avignon and \nincluded 16 Ursulines\, 13 Sacramentine nuns and one Benedictine nun. For \nrefusing to take the oath of Liberty of the new regime\, the nuns were expelled \nfrom their convents\, arrested and held in La Cure prison in Orange. These and \nother nuns formed a kind of religious community\, and spent hours in prayer \ndaily and religious exercises until condemned for fanaticism and superstition. \nBesides these\, many others were imprisoned and died under dire \ncircumstances at this same time. The martyrs of the prison ships or on islands \noff the shore of La Rochelle who died of starvation or illness off the shore of La \nRochelle included over 547. Yet for the cause of beatification\, only 64 among \nthese were retained as martyrs\, namely\, those who were explicitly mentioned in \nthe lists of the deported. \nOn October 1\, 1995\, Pope John Paul II beatified three other Cistercians at \nthe same time as 61 other priests and religious of various Congregations. The \nmartyrs of the prison ships of Rochefort died in 1794\, the same year as the nuns \nof Orange\, and were declared martyrs in 1925. 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.11 \nThe three Cistercians were: Bro\, Elias Desgardin\, a lay Brother from Sept \nFons. He cared for his sick companions. A martyr of charity\, he died of typhoid \nfever at the age of forty-four. He was buried on the island of Aix. Also Dom Paul \nCharles\, the Prior of Sept Fons. Detained on the ship Les Deux Associes\, he died \nat the age of fifty-one\, esteemed and loved by his companions in captivity\, he \nwas buried on the island called Madame. The third beatified martyr was Dom \nGervais Brunel\, Superior of La Trappe\, who died at the age fifty in a provisional \nhospital on the island Madame. Stricken with typhoid fever\, he arrived there on \nthe 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”.
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