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(OSV News) Five Catholic priests have been beatified in France, 152 years after they were seized as hostages and shot in the street by rebels of the Paris Commune. The story of these martyrs offers a warning for today, but also a message of hope from a Christian perspective, said Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Vatican s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. The circumstances to which they fell victim with several dozen other people also massacred by revolutionaries in their
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France to mark 150th anniversary of anti-religious uprising
Paris Commune s proclamation in 1871 sought to erase the Catholic Church from the public domain
Updated: May 20, 2021 05:39 AM GMT
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Sacré-Cour Basilica on Montmartre in Paris.
On Paris Rue Haxo, a white-brick church commemorates dozens of Catholic clergy who fell victim to one of modern Europe s bloodiest uprisings. Its 150th anniversary will be marked in the last week of May with a series of commemorative events. The Paris Commune was an attempted revolution, and it was essentially anti-religious seeking not just separation of church and state but the confiscation of church properties, explained Father Jacques Benoist, a French theologian and historian.