The Augustin brothers are accused in court for breaking the law forbidding unauthorized assemblies...

1900 Thomas, mayor of Kremlin-Bicetre, forbids the wearing of the ecclesiastical costume in his town.

This example is followed by others..." Reading further we may learn that later in 1901 to 1904 the various Catholic orders are forbidden or dissolved and most French Church property seized.

In 1905 a law decreeing a separation between the State and the Church is narrowly and bitterly voted and a struggle between France and the Pope begins ...
Between 1914 and 1918 25 000 priests and seminarians are mobilized and app.

5000 among them fall.