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Francis Duschesne (born January 8, 1736 in Laval , † January 21, 1794 ibid) 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

Francis Duschesne was raining the seminary in Laval. In 1779 King Louis XVI appointed him . to the Praeses of the Canons in Laval. From October 1793 he lived as a hermit of prayer, besides he was chaplain at the collegiate church Saint-Michel in Laval.

From 1792 he was held with thirteen other priests and a few nuns in the Patience monastery in Laval. After all religious practice was banned in France on January 9, 1794, Francis Duschesne and his confreres were indicted and convicted on the morning of January 21, 1794 by the former priest Jean-Baptiste Volcler . On the same day the fourteen priests were by guillotine executed . 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". Their bodies were buried in a meadow on Croix Bataille outside the city.

Aftermath

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

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