Sep 2: 185 Massacred in Paris by Secular Progressives

See what happens when secular progressive Democrats take over your country?  

Obama and Hillary believe that your rights come not from God but from government – rights of man vs God-given rights!

During the French Revolution, the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1791) required all priests to take an oath which amounted to a denial of the faith.

Each of these men refused and was executed.  We venerate them today.

John Francis Burté became a Franciscan at 16 and after ordination taught theology to the young friars. Later he was guardian of the large Conventual friary in Paris until he was arrested and held in the convent of the Carmelites.

Appolinaris of Posat was born in 1739 in Switzerland. He joined the Capuchins and acquired a reputation as an excellent preacher, confessor and instructor of clerics. Sent to the East as a missionary, he was in Paris studying Oriental languages when the French Revolution began. Refusing the oath, he was swiftly arrested and detained in the Carmelite convent.

Severin Girault, a member of the Third Order Regular, was a chaplain for a group of sisters in Paris. Imprisoned with the others, he was the first to die in the slaughter at the convent.

These three plus 182 others—including several bishops and many religious and diocesan priests—were massacred at the Carmelite house in Paris on September 2, 1792.

They were beatified in 1926.