Augustin-Emmanuel Philippot

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Augustin-Emmanuel Philippot (born June 11, 1716 in Paris , † January 21, 1794 in Laval , Mayenne ) was a French priest who was sentenced to death during the French Revolution and beheaded with the guillotine . He is venerated as a blessed in the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

He was the son of Jean-Emmanuel Philippot and his wife Geneviève Lamarre. Augustin-Emmanuel Philippot was ordained priest for the diocese of Mans and was pastor in Bazouge-des-Alleux near Laval, which he remained until the revolution. He and thirteen other priests were executed in Laval on January 21, 1794.

Fourteen priests who had remained in the Franciscan monastery in Laval because of their age or other health problems were brought before the revolutionary military tribunal of the Mayenne department on the morning of January 21, 1794 and sentenced to death there. On the same day they were beheaded with the guillotine on the Place du Blé (today's Place de la Trémoille ) with the participation of a large audience . Their bodies were then buried in a meadow on Croix Bataille outside the city. The choice of the date January 21st was no coincidence, rather the intention was to mark the anniversary of the death of Louis XVI. to celebrate".

Aftermath

The remains of the fourteen priests were exhumed on August 9, 1816 and transferred to the Notre-Dame church in the Avesnières district of Laval. On June 19, 1955, Pope Pius XII spoke . blessed the fourteen martyrs of Laval .

literature

  • Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs . 2nd Edition. H. Godbert, Laval 1846 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs , p. 474
  2. ↑ Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs , p. 214
personal data
SURNAME Philippot, Augustin-Emmanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, blessed of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1794
Place of death Laval , Mayenne department