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When I traveled to Paris earlier this year, I made a point to visit Cimetière Picpus to find the gravestone marking the spot where these Carmelite nuns are buried. They offered their lives to end the Reign of Terror. Ten days after their execution by guillotine, the architect of the Reign of Terror - Robespierre - met the same fate, and the Terror came to an end. I knelt in the damp earth and took dirt, sanctified by these martyrs' blood, to bring home as a relic. Carmelite Saints of Compiègne, pray for us 🙏

When I traveled to Paris earlier this year, I made a point to visit Cimetière Picpus to find the gravestone marking the spot where these Carmelite nuns are buried. They offered their lives to end the Reign of Terror. Ten days after their execution by guillotine, the architect of the Reign of Terror - Robespierre - met the same fate, and the Terror came to an end. I knelt in the damp earth and took dirt, sanctified by these martyrs' blood, to bring home as a relic. Carmelite Saints of Compiègne, pray for us 🙏

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First stop in Paris: The Sacred Heart Basilica, where Our Lord has been adored in perpetual adoration - uninterrupted - for more than 140 years, even during the German and Allied bombings of Paris, through wars, disease and other crises. The church itself was built as an act of penance in reparation for the government's crimes against the Catholic Church during the French Revolution - a time of intense persecution of clergy, religious and Catholic laity. It was first proposed by the bishop of Nantes, Felix Fournier. In 1871, Alexandre Legentil (founder of the Society of St Vincent de Paul), wrote: "We recognize that we were guilty and justly punished. To make honourable amends for our sins, and to obtain the infinite mercy of the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ and the pardon of our sins, as well as extraordinary aid which alone can delivery our sovereign Pontiff from captivity and reverse the misfortune of France, we promise to contribute to the erection in Paris of a sanctuary dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus." In July 1873, the National Assembly officially approved construction, stating that "it was necessary to efface by this work of expiation the crimes which have crowned our sorrows."

First stop in Paris: The Sacred Heart Basilica, where Our Lord has been adored in perpetual adoration - uninterrupted - for more than 140 years, even during the German and Allied bombings of Paris, through wars, disease and other crises. The church itself was built as an act of penance in reparation for the government's crimes against the Catholic Church during the French Revolution - a time of intense persecution of clergy, religious and Catholic laity. It was first proposed by the bishop of Nantes, Felix Fournier. In 1871, Alexandre Legentil (founder of the Society of St Vincent de Paul), wrote: "We recognize that we were guilty and justly punished. To make honourable amends for our sins, and to obtain the infinite mercy of the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ and the pardon of our sins, as well as extraordinary aid which alone can delivery our sovereign Pontiff from captivity and reverse the misfortune of France, we promise to contribute to the erection in Paris of a sanctuary dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus." In July 1873, the National Assembly officially approved construction, stating that "it was necessary to efface by this work of expiation the crimes which have crowned our sorrows."

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