07 May 2015, The Tablet

Royal baby’s Carmelite namesake


 
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, has a holy role model as a namesake.  Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection, beatified in 1906, was a Carmelite nun executed in 1794 during the French Revolution as one of the 16 martyrs of Compiègne in northern France. Her community had enjoyed the esteem of the French court and they refused to lay aside their monastic habit. In 1956, Poulenc wrote the opera Dialogues of the Carmelites about their de
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