Bl. Marthe Poulain de la Forestrie
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Birth: 1743
Death: 1794
Beatified: Pope John Paul II
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Marthe Poulain de la Forestiere Spectrometry ( October 2, 1743 - April 16, 1794) was a French martyr of the French Revolution from a noble family. Her parents lived in Angers and had 17 children. Together with her sister Mary, she was arrested Genevčve Saint-Laurent-du-Mottay. She died under the guillotine in Avrillé in April 1794. One of her brothers was a canon in the cathedral of Angers, he would later die in prison, and two of her sisters. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1984. Her feastday is on February 1.
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