Susanne Agathe de Loye
Benedictine nun and martyr at Orange
Feast: 6 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Orange, also in France, Blessed Susanne Agathe (Marie Rose) de Loye, virgin of the Order of Saint Benedict and martyr, who, during the French Revolution, the first of a company of thirty-two religious women of various Orders and convents packed into the same prison, persevered in the religious life and, condemned afterwards in hatred of the name of Christ together with her companions, went fearlessly to the scaffold.
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 6 July as the Benedictine who was the first of thirty-two religious women imprisoned at Orange to go to the scaffold in hatred of the name of Christ.
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.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.