WHO WERE THEY?
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Who were these seven FMM who, on 9th July 1900, in Taiyuan-Fu, China, gave their life for the Lord they loved, along with other Catholics, both Roman and Orthodox and Protestants? THEY WERE: Seven women of flesh and blood like any of us. Seven young people coming from families that had nothing extraordinary about them. Seven Sisters, with their desire to serve God, the Church, the poor, the missions, with their gifts, talents and possibilities, with their own temperaments, their personal histories, their faults, their defects. Very like us. Perhaps, they shared one common characteristic: an immense desire to respond seriously to God's call, to open up their lives to the Spirit, and allow the Spirit's work to be done in them, as did Mary of Nazareth. THEIR NAMES WERE:
Marie Hermine - French - 34 years old Marie Amandine - Belgian - 28 years old Maria Chiara - Italian - 28 year old Marie de Ste Nathalie - French - 36 years old Marie Adolphine - Dutch - 34 years old Marie de St Just - French - 34 years old Maria della Pace - Italian - 25 years old |