Martyrs of Cambrai - June 26

Martyrs of Cambrai
Also known as

Martyrs of Arras
Memorial

26 June
Profile

Four Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul nuns at Arras, France. Imprisoned together in 1792 and executed together two years later in the anti–Catholic excesses of the French Revolution.

Jeanne Gerard
Marie-Françoise Lanel
Marie-Madeleine Fontaine
Thérèse-Madeleine Fantou
Died

guillotined 26 June 1794 at Cambrai, Nord, France
Venerated

6 July 1919 by Pope Benedict XV (decree of martyrdom)
Beatified

June 1920 by Pope Benedict XV
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