Julien-François Morin de la Girardière

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Julien-François Morin de la Girardière (born December 14, 1735 in Saint-Fraimbault-de-Prières near Mayenne , † January 21, 1794 in Laval , Mayenne department ) was a French priest who was sentenced to death during the French Revolution and with the guillotine was beheaded. He is venerated as a blessed in the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

His parents were Julien Morin de la Beauluère and his wife Julienne Richard. After ordination , he worked as a priest in Mayenne, later he worked at the Church of Saint-Vénérand 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 from January 9, 1794 , Jean-Baptiste Triquerie and his confreres were indicted on the morning of January 21, 1794 by Volcler , a former priest. In response to the indictment, Morin reportedly replied:

«Quoi, c'est toi Volcler qui demande ma mort? Toi que j'ai accueilli dans ma maison, admis à ma table, que j'ai tendrement aimé ... »

“How, is that you, Volcler, who demands my death? You, whom I have lodged in my house, have left sitting at my table, whom I have loved so much ... "

The fourteen priests were sentenced to death 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".

The remains of the fourteen priests were exhumed in 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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date after Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs , p. 419, according to Johannes Baptist Triquerie in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints on December 4th.
  2. ↑ According to Bouillet, p. 419, in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints the year of birth is incorrectly given as 1773.
  3. ↑ Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs , p. 419
  4. ↑ Quatorze prêtres guillotinés à Laval le 21 janvier 1794. Laval53000, 7 December 2015, accessed on 4 May 2017 (French).
  5. ↑ Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs , p. 214
personal data
SURNAME Morin de la Girardière, Julien-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French priest, Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Fraimbault-de-Prières
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1794
Place of death Laval , Mayenne department