Joseph Pellé

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Joseph Pellé (born January 20, 1720 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

His parents were Joseph Pellé and Barbe Meslé. Joseph Pellé was chaplain of the Poor Clares; it is not known whether he ever held other functions.

From 1792 he was held with thirteen other priests and a few nuns in the Patience monastery in Laval. After all religious practice in France was banned from January 9, 1794, Joseph Pellé 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 . According to Isidore Bouillet, he went to the scaffold and said to the assembled crowd:

"We have taught you to live, we will teach you to die."

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 .

literature

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

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs . Laval 1846, p. 413-414 .
personal data
SURNAME Pellé, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Laval (Mayenne)
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1794
Place of death Laval (Mayenne)