Jean-Baptiste Triquerie

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Jean-Baptiste Triquerie (born July 1, 1737 in Laval , Département Mayenne ; † 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

He was the son of François Triquerie and his wife Jeanne geb. Jarry. After the family moved, Jean-Baptiste Triquerie grew up in Nantes . He joined the Franciscan conventuals in Olonne-sur-Mer , became a Guardian in this religious community and received the sacrament of ordination . Then he was chaplain in various monasteries of the Poor Clares , most recently in the monastery of Buron near Château-Gontier near Angers .

From 1792 he was held with thirteen other priests and a few nuns in the Patience monastery in Laval. After starting the January 9, 1794, any religion in France was banned, Jean-Baptiste Triquerie and his brothers were indicted on the morning of January 21, 1794, convicted, and on the same day by guillotine executed . Their bodies were 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. 468
  2. ↑ Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs , p. 214
personal data
SURNAME Triquerie, Jean-Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Laval , Mayenne department
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1794
Place of death Laval , Mayenne department