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Saint — Bl. Marie-Anne Vaillot and Odile Baumgarten (Angers Sisters of Charity)

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Bl. Marie-Anne Vaillot and Odile Baumgarten (Angers Sisters of Charity)
Marie-Anne: May 13, 1734 AD, Fontainebleau; Odile: November 8, 1750 AD, Gondrexange, Alsace — October 1, 1794 AD, Angers, French Republic — guillotined together at the Angers scaffold
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul; Sister-martyrs of the Angers Martyrs (October 1, 1794)
Cathedral of Saint-Maurice, Angers, France — memorial of the 99 Angers Martyrs, France
Feast
October 1
Canonized
Beatified February 19, 1984 by Pope St. John Paul II (among the 99 Angers Martyrs)
✠ MartyrShot at Avrillé in the persecution of the French Revolution → The Martyrs
Life

Marie-Anne Vaillot was born on May 13, 1734 at Fontainebleau. Odile Baumgarten was born on November 8, 1750 at Gondrexange in Alsace. Both entered the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

At the Hospital Saint-Jean at Angers, Marie-Anne and Odile served as hospital-Sisters — undertaking the systematic nursing ministry.

During the French Revolution, Marie-Anne and Odile refused the Constitutional Clergy Oath — continuing the underground Catholic hospital-ministry.

Arrested in 1794 for the recusant-Catholic hospital ministry, Marie-Anne and Odile were condemned to the guillotine.

On October 1, 1794, Marie-Anne and Odile were guillotined together at Angers — the only Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul guillotined during the French Revolution.

Beatified February 19, 1984 by Pope St. John Paul II as among the 99 Angers Martyrs.

Miracles & Phenomena

  • The Sister-martyr Angers Martyrs

    Bl. Marie-Anne Vaillot and Odile Baumgarten's joint martyrdom on October 1, 1794 — the only Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul guillotined during the French Revolution — established the women-religious martyr tradition of the French Revolution.

Relics
  • Body
    Memorial of Bl. Marie-Anne Vaillot and Odile Baumgarten
    Cathedral of Saint-Maurice, Angers, France — memorial of the 99 Angers Martyrs

    memorial veneration at the Cathedral of Saint-Maurice at Angers.

Iconography
  • Marie-Anne and Odile at the Angers guillotine

    The two French Daughters of Charity in blue-and-white Daughters of Charity habit being led together to the guillotine at Angers on October 1, 1794 — the iconography of Catholic French Revolution Sister-martyr tradition.

Patronages
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de PaulDiocese of Angers (Catholic)Catholic French Revolution Sister-martyr tradition
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