Jean-Baptiste Turpin du Cormier
Jean-Baptiste Turpin du Cormier (born September 8, 1732 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
Jean-Baptiste Turpin du Cormier was the son of Julien Turpin du Cormier and his wife Magdeleine Leroy. He studied theology in Angers and received his doctorate theologiae . Since March 1783 he was pastor at Laval Cathedral and Dean . He and thirteen other priests were executed in Laval on January 21, 1794.
Fourteen priests who had remained in the Franciscan monastery in Laval due to 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, with the participation of a large audience, they were beheaded with the guillotine on the Place du Blé (today's Place de la Trémoille ) , with Turpin du Cormier being the last to take the scaffold at the behest of the prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Volcler , a former priest to see the death of all his confreres. 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
- Quatorze prêtres guillotinés à Laval le 21 janvier 1794. Laval53000, 7 December 2015, accessed on 29 April 2017 (French).
- Johannes Baptist Turpin du Cormier and companions in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
Individual evidence
- ↑ Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs , p. 411
- ↑ Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs , p. 214
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Turpin du Cormier, Jean-Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French clergyman, blessed of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1732 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laval , Mayenne department |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1794 |
| Place of death | Laval |