Saint Charlotte: life, martyrdom and prayer
Sister Charlotte de la Résurrection was one of sixteen nuns from Compiègnewho died as martyrs during the Great Terror of the French Revolution. They were all beatified at the same time, in tribute to their courage and love of Christ. Saint Charlotte and her sisters are venerated on July 17 , the day of their martyrdom. Charlotte was beatified on December 18, 2024 by Pope Francis .
Biography of Saint Charlotte
Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection, whose birth name was Anne-Marie-Madeleine-Françoise Thouret, was born on September 16, 1715 in Mouy, in the diocese of Beauvais. Fatherless, she resented her stepfather and regularly defied parental authority. She was a lively, dynamic young woman. She entered the Carmelite convent at Compiègne in 1736, at the age of 21. The five years between her entry into the convent and the pronouncement of her final vows were difficult for the young woman. Whenshe became a Carmelite nun, she took the name Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection. She was in charge of the infirmary, and later worked as a painter and bursar in the convent. Sister Charlotte put her heart into her work.
At the age of 74, she was the dean of the Carmelite convent in Compiègne when the French Revolution broke out. The decree of February 13, 1790 abolished all religious orders. The Carmelites had to decide whether to leave or remain in the convent. The 21 nuns declared, as a unit, that they "wished to live and die in this holy house". In 1792, the Mother Prioress proposed that her community recite a daily act of consecration to God, in which they "offered themselves for the divine peace that her dear Son had come to bring to the world was restored to the Church and the State". They were expelled on September 14, 1792. They then lived with the families of Compiègne's inhabitants, in small groups. Although under police surveillance, the nuns continued to live by the rule of Saint Teresa of Avila , secretly attending mass and regularly renewing their faith in God and their vows as nuns. Sixteen of them, including Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection, were arrested on June 23, 1794, during the Great Terror, and imprisoned in the former Visitation convent, now a prison. They were tried on July 12, 1794 by the Revolutionary Tribunal. The nuns were condemned to be guillotined in Paris on July 17, 1794. Sister Charlotte's body and those of her sisters were thrown into a mass grave in Picpus cemetery.
Sister Charlotte was beatified on May 27, 1906, along with her fifteen sisters, by Pope Pius X .
Litanies of the Blessed Carmelites of Compiègne
"Lord, have mercy on us
Jesus Christ, have mercy on us
Lord, have mercy on us
Jesus Christ, hear us
Jesus Christ, hear us
Heavenly Father, who art God, have mercy on us
Son, Redeemer of the world, who art God, have mercy on us
Holy Spirit, who art God, have mercy on us
Holy Trinity, who art one God, have mercy on us
Holy Mary, pray for us.
Holy Mother of God, pray for us.
Holy Virgin of Virgins, pray for us.
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saint John of the Cross, pray for us.
Saint Therese of Jesus, pray for us.
Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, pray for us.
All you holy and blessed Carmelites, pray for us.
Blessed Mother Marie Thérèse de Saint Augustin Saint Louis, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Saint Louis, pray for us.
Blessed Sister of Jesus Crucified, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Euphrasia of the Immaculate Conception, pray for us.
Blessed Mother Henriette de Jésus, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Thérèse of the Heart of Mary, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Thérèse of Saint Ignatius, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Julie Louise de Jésus, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Marie Henriette de la Providence, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Constance de Jésus, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Marie du Saint Esprit, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Sainte Marthe, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Saint François-Xavier, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Catherine, pray for us.
Blessed Sister Thérèse, pray for us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, forgive us Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, hear us Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us Lord.
Jesus Christ, hear us.
Jesus Christ, hear us.
Pray for us, Blessed Carmelites of Compiègne, that we may be worthy of the promises of Jesus Christ.
O God, who sealed with the blood of your blessed martyrs the preservation of the Faith in the land of France, grant us through your mercy the grace of God.
by your mercy, may their prayers help us to confess your name, as their example urges us to do. Through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Prayer for the Blessed Carmelites of Compiègne
"Lord our God, you called the sixteen Blessed Carmelite Nuns of Compiègne to show you the greatest testimony of love by the offering of their blood so that "Peace might be restored to the Church and the State". Remember the heroic and joyful fidelity with which they glorified you. May your goodness manifest their favor with you, granting through their intercession the grace we ask of you, in the hearts of Jesus and Mary. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen."
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