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On July 1 1 ,a young Sister of Charity in ris had the first in an extraor ri of ap tion therine ure w favored om heaven with the m ge of the Miraculous M in a ri of sions of the Ble Mother in her convent cha l But r dy's me ge was not spiritual alone.She al predicted the coming upheavals in F nce,al­ though Mary promi d that the Sisters of Charity and their brother order the Vincentians would not attack
On July 17 the Revolution of 18 broke outChurches were de ­ crated, priests and reli ous impri n aten and killed Sister R lie of the Sisters of Charity had cared for a derelict who told her, e ck the Archbishop's palace tomorrow." The sister w ed the Archbishop and he went into hidin protected by the Sisters of Charity. As d promi the Vincentians and the Sisters of Charity were spar
But the violence continued in the streets of Pari The revolution gained a eat im tus when the Marquis de ayette announced his su rt of the radical The li ral a lutists in France had enough n not to want a retu to the days of the Terror.To forestall a li ral republic's coming to wer,they tu ed to Louis Philip ,Duke of Orleans, and a eat- eat- eat and n of Louis X Louis Philip was li ral (his fa­ ther had voted for Louis XVfs execution, although he t had later en guillotined1 but al ambitiou fayette a eed to accept Louis Philip as a replacement for Charles X,and he came to the throne.Not wanting to ap ar t royalist yet still wanting to have me royalist prerogatives, Louis Philip ch to known as itizen King," a combination of his royal title with the egalitarian desi ation by which all men were requ ed to known during the days of the Terror.
One of Citizen Kin s chief forei ministers w needle to y, Talleyrand Talleyrand rved Louis Philip for four years,then retired to write his memoirs,in which he declared he "never had trayed a gove ­ ment which had not trayed itself first" He died in 18 at the age of 84. Just fore he died,he signed a declaration in which he re cted "the eat errors which ...had troubled and afflicted the Catholic,A tolic and R man Church,and in which he himself had had the misfortune to fall"
For a time all was aceful,although Catherine La ure's continuing visions hinted at a retu to violence and at the death of the next arch­ bishop. Then in 1848,the year of the Communist Manifesto,the French lib-