Euphrasie de l’Immaculée Conception
Feast: 17 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Paris in France, Blesseds Teresa of Saint Augustine (Marie-Madeleine-Claudine) Lidoine and fifteen companions, virgins of the Carmel of Compiègne and martyrs, who during the French Revolution were condemned to death for having faithfully kept the monastic discipline and, having reached the scaffold, renewed the promises of their baptismal faith and their religious vows.
Among those named is Blessed Euphrasie de l’Immaculée Conception.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 17 July among the Carmelites of Compiègne guillotined at Paris during the French Revolution.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Roman Martyrology, 17 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q18710419 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.