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Jan 01, 0001 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 09 May 1849 (aged 1848) Capricorn
Camille De Soyécourt - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Camille De Soyécourt
- Camille de Soyécourt (1757–1849) or Thérèse-Camille de l'Enfant-Jésus was a wealthy heiress and French Catholic nun who restored the Carmelite Order in France after the French Revolution. Camille de Soyécourt was the daughter of the Marquis de Soyécourt. As a child she was placed with the nuns of the Visitation.
- At the age of 16 she decided to become a nun but faced opposition from her parents who wanted her to marry, which she strongly opposed.
- She waited until her majority at the age of 25 to enter the Carmelites, much to the despair of her parents.
- At the start she found the austere life difficult. During the French Revolution the nuns were expelled from their convent in 1792.
- They settled in small groups in apartments and continued their conventual life.
- Several were arrested, including Sister Thérèse-Camille, who was released after some time in prison. After a period of wandering she returned to Paris and founded a clandestine religious community. In 1796, since all her family had died during the Revolution, she inherited the family property and began to fund various actions to support the clergy and the nuns who were leaving prison or who were in misery.
- In 1797, she bought the Carmes Convent buildings and set up an unauthorised convent that became the hub of all French Carmelites. Because she supported Pope Pius VII and the "black cardinals", mother Camille was exiled to Guise by Napoleon from 1811 to 1813.
- After returning to Paris she continued her work of restoring the Carmelite order while also supporting the clergy and other religious communities.
- In 1845 she sold the Carmes Convent to the archbishop of Paris to house a school of high ecclesiastical studies and settled with her nuns in a new convent established especially for them.
- She died on 9 May 1849 at the age of 91.
- Her beatification process began in 1938.
