July 7th. Sister Marie Suzanne de Gaillard. Dead.
July 9th and 10th. Four Ursulines in two days. Dead.
Every morning, the remaining nuns woke up not knowing who would be taken next. Every evening, their circle grew smaller.
But they did not break.
They prayed for the sisters who would die that day. They sang the Te Deum, an ancient hymn of praise. In a prison. While waiting to be murdered.
The stories that came out of those cells sound impossible.
One nun was brought soup on a Friday before her execution. She refused to eat it. She said she had kept Friday abstinence her entire life. She would not break it on her last Friday on earth.
One nun handed out sugared almonds to the other women walking with her to the guillotine. “Enjoy these sweets,” she told them. “Soon we will taste the wedding feast of the Lamb.”
One nun kissed the guillotine before kneeling down.
One nun wrote a hymn about dying and taught it to the others.
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