14 Martyrs of Laval
As 14 Martyrs of Laval , a group of is priests referred, during the French Revolution on January 21, 1794 Laval , Mayenne , sentenced to death and the guillotine were beheaded.
On June 19, 1955, Pope Pius XII spoke . the 14 martyrs of Laval blessed .
French Revolution
Some of the 14 men were of old age, so they stayed on site after Laval's evacuation in 1793. They had stayed at the Patience monastery in Laval without taking advantage of the presence of the Vendée insurgents . Most of them were unable to be removed from Laval for reasons of age or health, five of them were over 70 years old, several were blind or otherwise physically impaired.
On the morning of January 21, 1794, they were brought before the revolutionary military tribunal of the Mayenne department and charged and sentenced by the former priest Jean-Baptiste Volcler . The choice of date was not a coincidence, rather the intention was to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Louis XVI. to remember. After their beheading, their bodies were buried in a meadow on Croix Bataille outside the city.
List of martyrs
- René-Louis Ambroise , priest at Laval Cathedral , 73 years old;
- Jacques André , priest in Rouessé-Vassé near Laval, 50 years old;
- André Duliou , priest in St-Fort near Laval, 66 years old;
- Francis Duschesne , chaplain at the Saint-Michel collegiate church in Laval, 58 years old;
- Jean-Marie Gallot , Cantor at Laval Cathedral and Chaplain to the Benedictine Sisters , 46 years old;
- Louis Gastineau , chaplain in Port-Brillet near Laval, 66 years old;
- François Migoret-Lamberdière , priest in Rennes-en-Grenouilles near Mayenne, 65 years old;
- Julien-François Morin de la Girardière , priest in Saulges near Laval, 58 years old;
- Joseph Pellé , priest at Laval Cathedral and chaplain to the Poor Clares , 74 years old;
- Augustin-Emmanuel Philippot , priest in La Bazouge-des-Alleux near Laval, 77 years old;
- Natalis Pinot , priest, 47 years old;
- Pierre Thomas , chaplain of the Augustinians at Château-Gontier near Angers, 75 years old;
- Jean-Baptiste Triquerie , Franciscan, chaplain of the convent of sisters in the monastery Buron near Château-Gontier, 57 years old;
- Jean-Baptiste Turpin du Cormier , parish priest at Laval Cathedral, 61 years old.
More martyrs
- On February 5, 1794: Françoise Mezière , religious teacher and nurse ;
- On March 13 and 20, 1794: Françoise Trehut and Jeanne Veron , nuns of the Charité Notre-Dame d'Evron ;
- On June 25, 1794: Marie Lhuilier , Sister of the Augustinian Sisters of Mercy , who devoted her life to nursing the sick;
- October 17, 1794: Jacques Burin , priest, pastor of St-Martin de Connée .
Further course
On August 9, 1816, the bones of the 14 martyrs were exhumed and transferred to the Notre-Dame basilica in the Avesnières district of Laval.
The 14 martyrs of Laval and the five others who were murdered by the Terreur in Laval were killed on June 19, 1955 by Pope Pius XII. beatified. A plaque in the Basilica Notre-Dame in Laval commemorates them.
literature
- Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs . 2nd Edition. H. Godbert, Laval 1846 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Quatorze prêtres guillotinés à Laval le 21 janvier 1794 , accessed on April 29, 2017
- Johannes Baptist Turpin du Cormier and companions in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints