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Religion and the French Revolution Established in the 16th century by two saints, Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross, the Order of Discalced Carmelites is a Catholic religious order.

The French Revolution opposed the Church, and those crowds were not faithful Catholics – they were people who supported closing chapels and ending the teachings of the Church.

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The French revolutionaries, on the other hand, were trying to destroy French society as they knew it and start over with something else. Bloodshed was in the revolution’s DNA.

It’s simple enough to pinpoint the beginnings of the French Revolution in 1789, but far more difficult to mark its end. Following the initial outbreak of revolution, France was plunged into ...

But in 1789, in the midst of the French Revolution, in which Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette ultimately lost their heads, the abbey and its land were seized by the state and the 46 nuns remaining ...

With the revolution, Cuba has never enjoyed times of plenty. Still, it has managed to keep its people believing that they must sacrifice for the “good of the revolution,” those who don’t are ...

Grasset, like most French priests, refused. He sought refuge with the Eudist Fathers, an order founded by the French saint, John Eudes. In August 1792, mass arrests of clergy took place.