death_date birth_place feast_day venerated_in birth_date titles article_title name beatified_date
1794 cambrai , france october 24 roman catholic church 1747 martyr joséphine leroux
 blessed joséphine leroux 1920
joséphine leroux

joséphine leroux -lrb- 1747 -- 1794 -rrb- , born anne-joseph leroux , was an ursuline nun .
she was born in cambrai , france .
she became an ursuline in valenciennes , taking the name josephine .
she fled to mons , hainaut when the monasteries and convents were suppressed during the french revolution , but returned to valenciennes in 1793 .
in 1794 , she and several other nuns were arrested there for the crime of faith and was guillotined with ten other nuns whose names are not known .
she is a blessed of the roman catholic church .
