Blessed Mary Rose de Loye

Also known as: Susanne-Agatha de Loye
Memorial: 9 July
Profile: Benedictine nun at Caderousse in 1762, taking the name Mary Rose. Expelled from the covent, imprisoned and then martyred during the persecutions of the French Revolution. The first of the Martyrs of Orange.
Born: 1741 at Sérignan, France as Susanne-Agatha de Loye
Died: guillotined in May 1794 at Orange, France
Beatified: 1925 by Pope Pius XI
Canonized: pending
Additional Information: Catholic Online
Daughters of Saint Paul
Holy Spirit Interactive
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Print References: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints
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