Thérèse de Saint-Augustin
French nun (1752-1794)
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 Thérèse de Saint-Augustin (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.
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 as the leader of the Carmelites of Compiègne, condemned to death at Paris during the French Revolution for keeping their monastic life.
- Roman Martyrology, 17 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q10380545 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.