Anna Maria Tauscher van den Bosch was born on 19th of June 1855 in Sandow, Brandenburg, (then in Germany, now in Poland), to deeply believing Lutheran parents. Her father was a pastor of the Evangelical Church....
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Sophie Leeves was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul) on October 1st, 1823. Her father was the Anglican chaplain of the British Embassy. During adolescence a profound change took place in her. She spent many hours in...
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Antonietta Zanelli was born in Castel Guelfo (Italy) on June 17, 1887. Born into a wealthy family, her father was the pharmacist of the village and her mother, Countess Maria Acquaderni, was the sister of Count...
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SISTER THERESE OF THE INFANT JESUS (IRENE BASTIN) Irene Bastin was born on 5 July 1901 at Saint Vinvent in Luxembourg. Her family was Christian. At the outbreak of the First World War both her parents...
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Father Luke of San Joseph (born José Tristany Pujol) and 13 of his confreres, Discalced Carmelites of Barcelona, suffered martyrdom at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Their names are: Fathers Luke of St Joseph,...
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They are the sixteen Discalced Carmelites: eleven nuns, three lay sisters and two externs of the monastery of the Incarnation of Compiègne (France). As soon as the French revolution degenerated into terror, they offered themselves to...
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Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the community of Discalced Carmelite nuns of the monastery of St. Joseph in Guadalajara dispersed and its members, in civilian clothes, had to seek refuge elsewhere....
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In July 1936, when the religious persecution began during the Spanish civil war, Father John of Jesus and the other four friars were in Lleida. The first few days they hid in the orchards near the...
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During the French revolution, the Constituent Assembly in 1789, after confiscating all ecclesiastical property and suppressing religious institutes, decreed the Civil Constitution of the clergy, by which bishops and parish priests had to be elected by...
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The Martyrs of Santander are remembered as a group of three Discalced Carmelites who gave witness to the faith in 1936: Atanasio of the Sacred Heart (Gregorio Aguinagalde Aguirreche), 1870–1936; Ruperto of the Cross (Ruperto Andueza...
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The Martyrs of Segorbe-Castellón, Eleuterio of Most Holy Mary and 33 companions, include the following Discalced Carmelites: Andrea Corsini of the Virgin of the Pillar (Miguel Palomar Martín), 1887–1936; Fernando of Saint Teresa (Mariano Górriz Martínez),...
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In July 1936 in Spain, after the political elections and the triumph of the left, there were criminal actions not only against political exponents but also against the religious. Contempt for religion and anticlerical attacks manifested...
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