Marie-Anne Piedcourt (Sister of Jesus Crucified), choir-nun, b. 1715, professed 1737; on mounting the scaffold she said "I forgive you as heartily as I wish God to forgive me"
Marie-Antoniette or Anne Hanisset (Sister Teresa of the Holy Heart of Mary), b. at Rheims in 1740 or 1742, professed in 1764
Marie-Françoise Gabrielle de Croissy (Mother Henriette of Jesus), b. in Paris, 18 June, 1745, professed 22 Feb., 1764, prioress from 1779 to 1785
Marie-Gabrielle Trézel (Sister Teresa of Saint Ignatius), choir-nun, b. at Compiègne, 4 April, 1743, professed 12 Dec., 1771
There were also three lay sisters:
Angélique Roussel (Sister Mary of the Holy Ghost), lay sister, b. at Fresnes, 4 August, 1742, professed 14 May, 1769
Julie or Juliette Vérolot (Sister Saint Francis Xavier), lay sister, b. at Laignes or Lignières, 11 Jan., 1764, professed 12 Jan., 1789
Marie Dufour (Sister Saint Martha), lay sister, b. at Beaune, 1 or 2 Oct., 1742, entered the community in 1772
and two tourières, who were not Carmelites at all but servants at the nunnery:
Catherine Soiron, born 2 February 1742 at Compiègne
Teresa Soiron, born 23 January 1748 at Compiègne
both of whom had been in the service of the community since 1772.
These sixteen are the first martyrs of the French Revolution that have been recognized.
Died
guillotined on 17 July 1794 at the Place du Trône Renversé (modern Place de la Nation) in Paris, France
Before their execution they knelt and chanted the "Veni Creator", as at a profession, after which they all renewed aloud their baptismal and religious vows.
The heads and bodies of the martyrs were interred in a deep sand-pit about thirty feet square in a cemetery at Picpus.
As this sand-pit was the receptacle of the bodies of 1298 victims of the Revolution, there seems to be no hope of their relics being recovered.
Five secondary relics are in the possession of the Benedictines of Stanbrook, Worcestershire.
