Feast July 17 | Name Rose-Chretien la Role Martyr | |
Similar People Catherine Laboure, Genevieve, Vincent de Paul, Madeleine Sophie Barat, Rosalie Rendu | ||
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church | ||
Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville (1741 - 17 July 1794) was a French Carmelite nun and one of the Martyrs of Compiègne. She married young but was widowed. She was professed as a choir nun in 1777, taking the name Sister Julie Louise of Jesus, O.C.D.. In 1794, de la Neuville was guillotined in Place du Trône Renversé in Paris.
On 27 May 1906 she and the other Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne were beatified by Pope Pius X.
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