It is a forgotten memory of the capital that the Catholic Church does not want to ignore.
The Municipality?
Everyone remembers it: 72 days of civil war in Paris, in 1871. The martyrs of the Commune, priests, religious?
They have disappeared from so many memories.
Otherwise in the parish of Notre-Dame-des-Otages, a church built on rue Haxo, in the 20th arrondissement of eastern Paris, on the site of the massacre of May 26, 1871. 150 years ago, 49 “hostages”, including 35 guards and gendarmes of the legal government, 4 civilians and 10 religious, were shot by the federates, militant and anticlerical atheists.
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This week, and until Sunday, the Catholic Church of Paris pays them an unprecedented tribute.
Five of these religious could also be beatified shortly.
Their Roman process is very advanced, the consultors of the congregation for the cause of the saints have just voted unanimously in this direction.
The Pope could announce their beatification for 2022.
Beatification procedure
Who are these religious?
The most emblematic is a priest,
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