Blessed Josephine Leroux
- Also known as
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Ann Joseph Leroux
Ann-Joseph Leroux
- Memorial
- 23 October
- Profile
- Ursuline nun at Valenciennes, taking the name Josephine.
When the convents were suppressed in the French Revolution, she fled to Mons in Hainault.
Returned to Valenciennes in 1793.
She and many of her sisters were arrested in 1794 for the crime of faith.
Martyred with ten other Ursulines whose names have not come down to us.
- Born
- 1747 at Cambrai, France as Ann-Joseph Leroux
- Died
- guillotined in 1794
- Name Meaning
- whom the Lord adds (Joseph)
- Beatified
- 1920
- Canonized
- pending
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