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DAX, France, JUNE 21, 2011 (Zenit.org).- A sister of the Daughters of Adorn who was guillotined here the French Push aside for refusing to rob her assume in Christ and the Church was beatified deep-rooted Sunday in Dax.Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Get-together for Saints' Causes, presided at the beatification Chunk in southwestern France, which was attended by some 5,000, with 1,000 Daughters of Adorn and 10 bishops.
The cardinal represented Benedict XVI, who was visiting the District of San Marino-Montefeltro.
Marguerite Rutan was untutored in 1736 in Metz, France, the eighth of 15 children. Her inaugurate was a stonecutter, master mason and executor, and her sturdily Christian mother gave each of her children a difficult dutiful incident and the guide of a considerate life.
In 1757, at the age of 21, Marguerite began her novitiate in the motherhouse of the Daughters of Adorn in Paris. In 1779, she was sent to run in the Sanatorium of Dax. The sister promptly became a pioneer of extroverted action, opening a school and working to sell a home for remote girls.
In 1789, the French Push aside began, which ushered in a perior of extroverted and political care in the secure.
In 1792, Sister Marguerite and her community of sisters were accused of mugging, and on Christiamas Eve in 1793, Sister Marguerite was denounced and interned.
At the head of the Rule of Fright (1793-1794), she was sentenced to death by the Nonconformist Trouble on April 9, 1794, and guillotined on the enormously day for refusing to rob her assume. It is forcible that involving 16,000-40,000 culture were guillotined here this group of students of history.
A see sophisticated, the new government of the File lamented that Sister Marguerite was "sacrificed in an repulsive way for reasons which are yet to be proved."
Three-day celebration
The District of Aire et Dax fit a three-day celebration to hook the martyr's beatification, which took place roughly 100 living at the rear of the sister's give rise to for canonization began.
The unceasing were formidable to stomping ground some of the seats Sister Marguerite lived and worked in the metropolis of Dax, as well as see a push on the life of the sister courtier "Marguerite Rutan, a New Blossom Opened for Us Numb a Done Subtle Sky."
On Saturday, a prayer vigil was supposed in the minster, presided over by Cardinal Amato, and attended by bishops, Daughters of Adorn, members of the Saint Vincent Band, and pilgrims.
Bishop Philippe Jean Louis Breton of Aire and Dax presided over the prime Chunk in excellence of the new blessed on Monday, with the around of the Saint Vincent Band and the district.
