René-Louis Ambroise

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René-Louis Ambroise (born March 1, 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

Born as the son of the printer Louis-François Ambroise and his wife Perrine-Charlotte Chevillard, René-Louis Ambroise was initially a supporter of Jansenism . He later renounced this teaching, as he explained to the tribunal. He never exercised his priesthood, rather he devoted himself to study and physical labor. So he worked the stones himself for a house that he had built. He and thirteen other priests were executed in Laval on January 21, 1794.

Fourteen priests who had remained in the Franciscan monastery in Laval because of 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 they were beheaded with the guillotine on the Place du Blé (today's Place de la Trémoille ) with the participation of a large audience . 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 . the 14 martyrs of Laval blessed.

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 , pp. 207, 414
  2. ↑ Isidore Bouillet: Mémoires ecclésiastiques concernant la ville de Laval et ses environs , p. 214
personal data
SURNAME Ambroise, René-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, blessed of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Laval
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1794
Place of death Laval