Feastday: July 17
Birth: 1741
Death: 1794
One of the Carmelites of Compiegue, France, born in 1711. She was originally from Evreux, and after becoming a widow, entered the Carmelites at Compiegne. With her fellow sisters, she was guillotined by French revolutionaries at Paris.
Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville (1741 - 17 July 1794) was a French Carmelite nun and one of the Martyrs of Compiègne. She married young but was widowed. She was professed as a choir nun in 1777, taking the name Sister Julie Louise of Jesus. In 1794, de la Neuville was guillotined in Place du Trône Renversé in Paris.
On 27 May 1906 she and the other Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne were beatified by Pope Pius X.
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