Here’s a voice the media aren’t promoting: Sister Danielle, the nun who slipped out during the terrorist attack on a church in France on Tuesday.
Sister Danielle alerted the police of the terrorist attack at the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy, and although her swift action could not save Father Hamel, she saved the lives of the other four members of the congregation.
She gave the insider account of the killing of Father Hamel at the hands of the ISIS-affiliated extremists on French RMC Radio, saying: “I didn't think they were going to come after Jacques. It was still dawn. He was standing in front of the altar, they made him get down on his knees and then he started to resist. When we saw the knife in the right hand I said to myself, 'well, something's really going to happen there.'”
She the terrorists were “shouting 'you Christians are wiping us out.' They were taping themselves on video. They made a kind of sermon around the altar in Arabic. It was horrifying.”
She recalls that Father Hamel, the 84-year-old priest killed by the terrorists, “was an extraordinary priest. That’s all I can say. Father Jacques is great.”
The French bishops have designated Friday, July 29 as a day of fasting in response to the shootings.