A group of 190 martyrs who were massacred on September 2 and 3, during the French Revolution. The most prominent martyrs of this group were
John Mary du Lau, the
archbishop of ArIes; Francis de la Rochefoucauld,
bishop of Beauvais; Louis de la Rochefoucauld,
bishop of Saintes; Benedictine Augustine Chevreux, last superior general of the Maurists; Charles de la Calmette, the count of Valfons; Julian Massey: Louis de la Touche; and Carmes. One hundred twenty were martyred at the Carmelite Church on the rue de
Rennes in Paris. They were all
beatified in 1926
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