The Execution Of The Guillotined Nuns Of The Terror

[@pimpompoom93726]

Shame on France for allowing this. I am not a Roman Catholic, but I salute these Nuns for their courage and Faith.

[@DeidresStuff]

One of my teachers in college said that the French were the only culture he didn't like, despite his ancestry being French. He said they kiled all of the intelligent people. And they really did, along with women like this, who weren't bothering anyone.

[@altinaykor364]

I'm not even Christian, I don't know the first thing about Bible and I'm also critical towards Catholic church and I agree

[@chreg89]

You should shame socialism for this. Everytime it ends in a disaster.

[@the4universes207]

@@chreg89 More light like the enlightenment which led liberalism, socialism and facism.

[@oliviervece6121]

Do you know tthat 90 % were against and do you know that the free massons who did it worked for pitt the prime minister of england. That brutal barbary was an horror made free massons.

[@getlost3346]

Interesting fact.. The French Terror lasted 9 months and resulted in 40,000 executions. Compare to the Spanish Inquisition which lasted over 150 years with over 100,000 trials but only around 4,000 executed.

[@xhagast]

Robespierre wanted blood. The Spanish Inquisition wanted obedience, compliance with the law and the money of the marranos. It did not prosecute witches and very few heretics. In Germany and France they executed more witches every year than people was ever executed by the Spanish Inquisition.

[@snidecommenter7117]

Beginning in the 12th century and continuing for hundreds of years, the Inquisition is infamous for the severity of its tortures and its persecution of Jews and Muslims. Its worst manifestation was in Spain, where the Spanish Inquisition was a dominant force for more than 200 years, resulting in some 32,000 executions.

[@stillhere1425]

But so much torture.

[@JohnDoe-px4ko]

It’s all barbaric and shows what monsters some humans are (I use the present tense as we are still capable of this, and worse, today.

[@lesleybrown1583]

SOME???

[@kimberlypatton205]

What evil and bloodlust.

[@aaronmiguelsalvo8484]

There are some surviving relics of the nuns though, some of the lay clothes were worn by another community of nuns, who were with the Carmelites, that were sent back to England and the Little statue of the Virgin Mary that the Prioress held, before going up to the scaffold she gave it to a woman who was kind to them. One detail ommited is that the nuns were singing Laudate Dominum as they were being executed one by one. This particular hymn is sung by the Carmelites when they found a new monastery.

[@dianochka5432]

The clothing is held by the Benedictine community of Stanbrook Abbey in Yorkshire, who descend from the Benedictine community of Cambrai who shared the Carmelites' imprisonment but not their execution.

[@aaronmiguelsalvo8484]

@@dianochka5432 that's the one I was thinking of their name but can't remember, I remember seeing it on tv.

[@LynneMezzo]

It is strange that Poulenc had the nuns sing Salve Regina in the opera Dialogues of the Carmelites.

[@aaronmiguelsalvo8484]

@@LynneMezzo tge nuns did sing it but not on the execution site. They were singing it on their way to it. The crowd was, according to eyewitnesses, became silent and revrent at the sight of this community of nuns singing their prayers on their way to their execution. And it continued to be so until the prioress was beheaded.

[@dianochka5432]

@@LynneMezzo It’s just a theatrical device. It’s very powerful and dramatic.

[@thefanone]

It is so awful what men are capable to do to men😢😢😢

[@smckay6438]

Sexist ! The nuns are just as ruthless! Remember the Catholics supported the natzis! 😊

[@cecillebarone9252]

So much for "freedom and equaity"long ad you agree with them how little the world changes

[@xhagast]

Liberte, egalite, fraternite. Freedom, equality, brotherhood. The motto of the French Revolution.

[@vernsnith2230]

France should ever be ashamed for what happened to these holy nuns. May these holy women be forever remembered for their love of their Catholic faith- even to the point of death itself. May these holy women be of blessed and holy memory always.

[@tracyanne8616]

Truly dreadful. Poor ladies.

[@MountainRaven1960]

Some of those pictures show how little some artists knew what a guillotine actually looked like.

[@gillesblanchard1699]

Someone just saw a tree and did not acknowledge the forest!

[@gilbertjones9157]

It was surprising to me that you neglected or did not know that the Prioress and I think, 4 others were cousins to the King and it was their deaths that changed the thirst for blood in the assembled crowd and with their deaths ended the reign of terror. They did as the first martyrs of the first century church, seeking to find means to be nuns while the government sought to push them out of the view of society while ending their relationship to the government and people.

[@manuellubian5709]

Not everybody has heard this story. I know I have not.

[@manuellubian5709]

I did not know this part of history. This is the 1st time I had, heard of any of this. So, thank you for the education.

[@aaronmiguelsalvo8484]

One of the nuns were related to Louis XIV's minister, Colbert. As for the Prioress, Mo. Teresa of St. Augustine, there are actually 2 of the one is the daughter of the king who peacefully died in the Carmel of St. Denis days before the revolution and the other is the one who was martyred here in this video. Both nuns are connected to Marie Antoinette, the first one whose sister is the king, recieved her habit in the hands of Marie before she was a queen. The other recieved help from the queen with concerns of her dowry.

[@aaronmiguelsalvo8484]

Also another fun fact when the Blessed Teresa of St. Augustine was young she was helped by Mo. Terese of St. Augustine (formerly known as Princess Louise of France) by convincing Marie Antoinette in providing her dowry. When she professed her first vows she choose the same name as the princess as a way of thanking her.

[@gilbertjones9157]

@@aaronmiguelsalvo8484 Thanks for the info I had scanned the story more than 30 years ago with my memory falling short now, was by an Anglican Author who penned that there should be more interchange between Anglican, Lutherans, Orthodox and Romans on their histories to bring more consensus around faith and it's applications in our lives. Our manipulated history in the comings years will press us all as it's shackles are removed revealing it's true reality. We are entering a period of time which will be similar to those years of revolution and tearing down on a civilization level but world wide.

[@williambowling8211]

Thank you for providing an excellent example of hysteron proteron in your video title.

[@annettefournier9655]

Utter madness.

[@joejanczak3014]

Example after example for us to remember to never trust government.

[@altinaykor364]

and don't fool ourselves with some cliche words such as democracy

[@sptuuri]

The visable face of true evil.

[@JulieDeh]

I really hope they've been allowed to keep wearing their veils 🫶🏻 may these beautiful souls rest in peace

[@thejollygreendragon8394]

Thank You

[@jefflisondra8555]

I heard about the execution of the 16 Carmelite nuns during the french revolution

[@elizabethspedding1975]

RIP 🌹

[@stevecannon4780]

I believe there is an opera about this.

[@pameladowe2492]

Dialogue of the Carmelites

[@dianochka5432]

Poulenc

[@jacquesrenou2850]

Im glad my family left France in 1606 and many prior to the french revolution. How horrific and what a sin they committed. I identify as a french Canadian and not French.If my many ancestors never left,than i wouldn't be here today.Im so glad for their decision and that they didn't have to bare witness to sheer madness and savagery. My dad was a french national,and thats an entirely different story.

[@mothrafly1698]

thank you!

[@sirdudleynightshade8747]

Why would anybody want to guillotine someone who's already been executed?

[@d1427]

so they were guillotined first and then executed?

[@michaelbedinger4121]

Interesting, thank you very much.

[@lizycole8999]

Were they actually allowed to wear their habits to the guillotine?

[@xhagast]

Doubtful. They probably looked just like a gang of street women. Only they were singing hymns.

[@billyponsonby]

Imagine if you will, nationwide a big box store in every town employs managers and some of these managers are credibly accused of child abu$e but head office hush it up and move the manager to another store location. This becomes public knowledge and it’s widespread and the behaviour institutionalised. Would you expect to see that same big box store continue to open its doors for business in every town? Now realise it’s not in-fact just a store doing this but your church and somehow it’s still in business. Crazy.

[@rafd3593]

What has this got to do with these nuns?

[@geoffbalmain296]

so still nothing changes,

[@secretagent86]

Very sad

[@David-yw2lv]

France was briefly atheist.This was the result.

[@akaLaBrujaRoja]

No, this was the result of Christian infighting and centuries of corruption and abuse by the Catholic Church.

[@rogermosberger6856]

Far more people have been killed in the name of "God", than in the name of atheism!

[@craigmoffitt2374]

In the Kingdom of France the Catholic Church was extremely corrupt and cozy with the monarchy. Sorry if that conflicts with your agenda.

[@David-yw2lv]

@@craigmoffitt2374 What else is news?If my not being an atheist conflicts with your agenda I could care less.

[@craigmoffitt2374]

Other than demonizing Atheists when the well documented corruption and abuses of the religious hypocrites are glossed over. @@David-yw2lv

[@AKAKiddo]

The reign of terror, it's coming again. God help us.

[@debbierowley8833]

One of the most brutal periods in FRENCH history, not world history!

[@callmethecommentcountess9329]

Interesting

[@dhm7815]

The Wikipedia article is better organized and tells a better narrative.

[@Onora619]

First comment, boom!

[@janetcw9808]

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[@Job-y8o]

Too many errors.

[@LoriVanAuwelaer-fe4fw]

Hey y'all 😮

[@johnnolan2557]

This happened because of the king, they took all the money and were in endless wars! The crown supported these nuns. You should read your history before you make judgment!

[@altinaykor364]

imagine saying such a murder is ok and trying to excuse it by saying "The Crown Supported These Nuns!" and having the nerve to call someone who explained it Judgmental

[@johnnolan2557]

@altinaykor364 I never said it was ok. I'm simply stated what happened. Besides, God kills people everyday.

[@altinaykor364]

@@johnnolan2557 god punishes wicked people and wicked people are obvious in this case who by the way got their deserved punishment

[@johnnolan2557]

@altinaykor364 so you're saying; the nuns and royalty were wicked and lost their heads...exactly, that's what I was saying. We're in agreement

[@altinaykor364]

@@johnnolan2557 no, it's revolutionaries who were the true wicked people and thankfully their true nature was revealed soon, and they became their own pathetic downfall

[@rjlchristie]

Remember the Office of the Holy Inquisition, the interminable religious wars and the witch burnings. Remember the slaughter of the Cathars. What goes around comes around.

[@altinaykor364]

they weren't a bunch of pathetic hypocritical people that will ramble about freedom and giving the exact opposite! that's their difference and yeah what goes around comes around, you and those you're fan-girling should know that better

[@rjlchristie]

@@altinaykor364 Do you really want to com[are the death and suffering toll of Religion against that of egalitarian secularism? Bring it on.

[@altinaykor364]

​​@@rjlchristieyes, I will compare! Religion (from any kind) was fanatic, still is and probably will be! But what they didn't do, is try to hide or deny it cowardly! They didn't promise people that they'll respect their different opinions and religion, they didn't promise to bring freedom or heaven on earth, they didn't turn against their own company! People always knew what they should expect from them and what not to. Secularism of french revolution on the other hand, were a bunch of pathetic hypocriticals who would ramble about freedom and liberty, while all they did was just doing the exact thing religion does, only from different perspective! They disrespected people's faith and belief, everything they hold dear, just as much as religion fanatics did. (Even worse, since religious people weren't known to be moderate, at least they didn't commit desecration and violation) and in this case, is perfectly comparable when the nuns who were killed did nothing wrong but refusing to change their faith

[@rjlchristie]

@@altinaykor364 So much derp. 1 False claims: Religion makes false promises all the time. False claims of salvation, creation myths etc. 2. Preaching tolerance (when not preaching outright hatred) while practising intolerance : Religion turns on itself or its internal variants with appalling regularity, just for being different.. 3 Hypocrisy: Religion preaches love and brotherhood while promoting bigotry, murder, jihad, crusade, pogroms, ethnic cleansing forcible conversion, heresy trials, slavery, sexual hate and subjugation. And we're just getting started.

[@altinaykor364]

​@@rjlchristie delusional religion doesn't promise any of this crap, no where in the history of world no religion has ever promised that they'll be tolerant to others, not even pagans and pre-Christians and Jews! Even Romans pushed people towards Christianity because of their own barbaric nature (exactly what French revolutionaries looked up to, a bunch of barbarics who made religion look like salvation) French Revolution on the other hand...just a bunch of hypocritical and delusional people who see themselves differently and overtime fortunately their true faces revealed and be more revealed in the future

[@craigmoffitt2374]

Now please do a video about the massive abuses by the Catholic clergy and their corrupt relationship with the monarchy in France before the Revolution. These were not the innocent victims you want to present them as.

[@aaronmiguelsalvo8484]

Some yes they are bad but there are still others who are good, people tend to think that all of them are bad and that they tend to forget the others who do good, like these nuns whose vocation is prayer and poverty under the rule of St. Teresa of Avila. Or the Duagthers of Charity whose hospitals and orphanages where forced to be closed because of such sentiments. Or the Monfortian fathers who feed and tend to the sick who were brutally massacred. Also the channel is mostly focused on women in history hence the name.

[@nielszindel1151]

Nuns live monastic lives and are regarded as sacred to God which the French knew full well. Delia Morris

[@altinaykor364]

another ignorant person here, tries to justify such a crimes saying "Oh they weren't innocent themselves" imagine justifying delusional hypocritical people

[@3gunslingers]

@@nielszindel1151 Probably not those nuns. Most of them were closely related to the royal family. Not that I would support summary execution just for family ties. But as the video suggested this was one of the few if not the only execution of nuns. And the video heavily leans on the persecution complex of Christians.

[@raphaelledesma9393]

The Church in France even at this time is not one monolithic entity. The ones who were primarily abusers were those in high positions such as the bishops or archbishops who were often themselves taken from the aristocracy. The humble village priests who made maybe just as much as their flock (since they were supported by that community) also scorned the wealth of the upper clergy. Also it’s laughable how you think these nuns were such great threats to the State since evidently the monsters of the Reign of Terror thought so.

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

The thing is, those who are most religious are less 'brave' than those who have noting to do with religion but give up thier lives for a cause. These nuns (brave & honourable as they where) truly believed they where going to heaven. After spending a large part of thier lives rejecting society and indulging in thier own worship of some 'God', they literally believed they where leaving this life on Earth to go and meet God. On the other hand, countless others go to thier death for a cause knowing that this is it, there is no more, thier lives are ended forever. Who is the bravest?? Just saying. 🙂

[@altinaykor364]

the bravest are those with their hearts and souls in the right place! and cowards are the people, who claim they want to bring freedom and liberty while all they do is just getting rid of anyone opposing them and even villainise them or act like they didn't exist, or spread paragonda against them so their pathetic cause can be true! they are the true cowards and there's nothing brave about them

[@ojj3340]

Pointless comment.

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

@@ojj3340 and yet you had to reply 😄😅🤣

[@tomphillips2214]

TERRIBLE AUDIO BUY A MIC ?

[@trollmeistergeneral3467]

The guillotine was not known as “the Nation’s Razor.” It was known as “the National Razor.” The narrator cannot pronounce the “Place de la Nation” properly in French either. Why did the makers of this video not find a narrator who could pronounce words properly?

[@margaretobrien9133]

"Not the only thing she couldn't get right. Beautified was pronounced incorrectly, as well".

[@Evil0tto]

Why can't you write proper English?

[@trajan75]

About a week after the execution of the Carmelites Robespierre was overthrown and he and his cohorts were executed. Seems like rough justice to me.

[@Jhihmoac]

trajan75 - The Carmelite Nuns were pretty much _"the straw that broke the camel's back"_ with the tolerance of Robespierre and his Jacobin henchmen as far as the Republic was concerned! Word of these nuns being executed had spread very fast through Europe with countries like Spain outraged to where there was talk of possible war over this matter - Something the Republic realized it could not survive in its current state... The other leaders of the Republic then concluded that Robespierre was becoming insane with his deadly power and had to be dealt with - _FAST!_

[@trajan75]

@@Jhihmoac Interesting. After all after presiding over the execution of a whole convent who could feel safe under Robespierre.

[@francisebbecke2727]

Robespierre. His dogma was run over by his karma.

[@pameladowe2492]

It all started as being for the people, and then it turned on the people. It is starting again, and until we turn on the persecutors, it will just get worse!

[@craigmoffitt2374]

Being asked to treat people with the sort of respect you would want is not persecution.

[@craigmoffitt2374]

Not what I said at all. If your entire argument has to be based on lies you shouldn't make it. @Hlord-be4xx

[@aprilgosa5779]

it was never for the people this was a trick it was because Robispierre and some others did not want Marie a woman and a foreign woman to have as much power as a queen has so they made these allegations against her to turn the french people against her which was not hard because again she was not french but Austrian and she was brought to France aged only 14 Louis was 15 Marie was 37 when she was murdered

[@pameladowe2492]

@Hlord-be4xx thank you, a spot-on analysis of this pivotal event!

[@unclesmrgol]

I find it interesting that some of the comments indicate that the nuns deserved this fate. Goes to show that hatred of religion, and Catholicism in particular, are alive and well on KZbin.

[@ragnapodewski4694]

The famous Catholic writer Gertrud von Le Fort wrote the story "The last one at the scaffold" about a Novice who was from birth sick of fear, who fled first from theCarmelites. Then she sang the rest of the hymn and was at once lynched.

[@johnransom1146]

See Francois Couperin’s opera “Dialogues of the Carmelites” for a stunning setting of this dramatic event.

[@johnransom1146]

Whoops, Poulenc

[@Arkelk2010]

Powerful opera.

[@robkeeleycomposer]

The final scene especially is gut-wrenching, as each nun goes to the guillotine to the 'Salve Regina': on paper a corny idea and it shouldn't work but it does and it's almost unbearably moving. @@Arkelk2010

[@stillhere1425]

Nodding.

[@whaaat3632]

Henry VIII burned and executed thousands of brothers, priests and nuns as part of the Dissolution of the Monestaries.

[@aprilgosa5779]

Robispierre got his in the end his head ended up under the Gullitone he put Marie Antionette under by false charges and accusations and what they did to her little son still sickens and enrages me

[@allisonshaw9341]

Robespierre and his ilk were worse than the devil.

[@spudpud-T67]

I'm sure the devil is constantly amused at how cheaply we sell our souls.

[@allisonshaw9341]

@@spudpud-T67 And for reasons that are meaningless, too.

[@xhagast]

Didn't Marat say that the Revolution needed another 100,000 lives? A woman deputy at the Assembly asked that he be given a glass of blood so he could refresh himself.

[@altinaykor364]

well, since we can call Robespierre and his ilk the original Communists, hear the opinion which every non-Russian country which were previously part of Soviet Union, have about Communists (I'm not joking by the way) "They're demons wearing human flesh"

[@heliotropezzz333]

It's pronounced Be at i fied (4 syllables)

[@WayneGray-m6e]

This is what happens when they use AI!

[@Intrepid_Insomniac]

This is obviously not AI… you can hear that it’s a woman resting and even breathing between words lol

[@saydvoncripps]

It's not pronounced like that in the UK. Its bee T fied here.

[@heliotropezzz333]

@@saydvoncripps No it's not. I was raised as a Catholic in the UK and it's a Catholic term. I know how it's pronounced but poor education and reduced reading habits mean younger generations sometimes lose the knowledge.

[@fionamargaretwraith6]

@@saydvoncripps no it isn’t.

[@jmfleureau8662]

Cette révolution a été une catastrophe.

[@chreg89]

Socialism is a nightmare. It should be illegal by now.

[@johnwright9372]

Robespierre fell victim to the terror of which he was a central part.

[@francisebbecke2727]

Robespierre. His dogma was run over by his karma.

[@dianafarmer5445]

And then, not that much longer in time really, they got an Emperor.

[@Bildgesmythe]

People are horrible.

[@jamesmcdonald5026]

This was actually the turning point of public opinion.

[@paralogregt]

How can you guillotine an executed person?

[@maximogomez6174]

Salute to those brave martyr ladies. There is not wonder how Robespierre received the same treatment he was advocating for others. Treat others as you like to be treated.

[@fr.michaelknipe4839]

Beautifully presented

[@chriskappert1365]

Freedom , Brotherhood , Equality ......but not if you think or live otherwise !!!!! Looks allot like socialism / communism .....doesnt it ?

[@duvine3882]

"And 1st they came for the" witches to the Inquisition & the nuns didn't help because they weren't witches,...."then they came for the".... nuns in the French Revolution "and there wasn't more no more"... religious women to save them, sad.

[@GertjanZwiggelaar-mo4tz]

Your title suggests that the nuns were executed twice. I mean, if they are already guillotined how can you then execute them? Perhaps you need to hire me to edit your work before you post.

[@barbarossa1234]

Nun the wiser.

[@lunastarr1925]

my goodness!!!! this is terrifying😢😮

[@julielarge6120]

These nuns didn't have to forgive these vile individuals. God and Jesus do the judging Matthew 7 Vs 21-23.

[@chreg89]

But they did. Forgiving is not judging.

[@MaxcineRobinson-f2p]

Wow

[@jimmunro4649]

Never trust the french We learn that here in NZ WE SHALL NEVER FORGET

[@jacquesrenou2850]

Yet we say the same as you,never trust your people, as the British can attest too from actual history.

[@kimberlypatton205]

Please don’t be rude.. there are ways to present things without it.

[@r01dtox15]

😢🙏

[@colinmccarthy7921]

I always thought France was Roman Catholic.

[@standupstraight9691]

The revolution was a humanist movement.

[@cW-jk1sw]

Me too

[@chreg89]

? They had religious wars all over europe. And france was no different.

[@jacquesrenou2850]

They were many religions,many catholics went to New france/ Canada and continued with their religion far from the corrupted ones they left behind in France and actually practiced the true faith removed from the corruption of the mother country and were respected as well as did good.

[@LynneMezzo]

France no longer has an official religion, the decree being handed down in 1905. Before that, France was often called the Elder Daughter of the Catholic Church.

[@altinaykor364]

If I was one of these ladies, I wouldn't have forgiven such a people! I would instead say: "I loath you but worse than that, I pity you! And I pray for you because you don't have the sanity to see how much you have turned your souls filthy and dark"

[@damionkeeling3103]

Their steadfast refusal to show such hostility and remain true to their beliefs is why their story is still known today. I'm sure there were many who went cursing to their deaths and have long since been forgotten. Grace under pressure is a sign of true strength and it's unfortunate you'd never see such a thing in a modern hollywood movie, it's always about anger and revenge.

[@altinaykor364]

​@@damionkeeling3103 not forgiving isn't always translated in anger and revenge. some people are just at peace with not forgiving those who wronged them and simply not wanting to do anything with them. especially since there are some people who really don't deserve forgiveness and have much more to make up for, and much more to redeem for (which in this case was impossible) and forgiveness of much more people than just one person

[@JobyJoby-iw2wr]

Where were the Rothschilds in all of this?

[@erinobrien8793]

No

[@jacquesrenou2850]

Funding the wars always on both sides of all conflicts then and now,truly satanic and evil.

[@robertvictor3237]

Hats off to the French, they really knew what they had to do.

[@JohnJones-ct9pr]

Thoroughly evil comment.

[@robertvictor3237]

@@JohnJones-ct9pr nuns are evil people I agree

[@rafd3593]

Not really

[@jackstraw6880]

Correcting grammar is gauche…

[@miguelcastaneda7257]

Always know it's truly evil if has a British accent .

[@farrier2708]

HEY! As a Brit' I resent that racist remark! However! I forgive you. ✝😎👍