Marguerite Rutan

Blessed Marguerite Rutan D.R.
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Religious
Born	(1736-04-23)23 April 1736 Metz, Moselle, Kingdom of France
Died	9 April 1794(1794-04-09) (aged 57) Dax, Landes, French First Republic
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Beatified	19 June 2011, Les Arènes, Dax, Landes, France by Cardinal Angelo Amato
Feast	26 June
Attributes	Religious habit
Patronage	Nurses Persecuted Christians Prisoners

Marguerite Rutan (23 April 1736 – 9 April 1794) was a French Roman Catholic religious person who was a professed member of the Vincentian Sisters. Rutan served as the mother superior of a hospital the sisters managed until the time of the French Revolution when she was executed based on the allegations of fanaticism and anti-Revolution sentiment.^[1]

The process for beatification – the recognition that she died "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith) – commenced under Pope Benedict XV but was long and protracted; it seemed doomed after Rome suggested there was no local following (or "cultus") to Rutan. Later revival of the process allowed for Pope Benedict XVI to approve the beatification; Cardinal Angelo Amato – on the behalf of the pope – presided over the beatification on 19 June 2011.^[2]