René Lego
René Lego , also Renatus Lego , (born October 5, 1764 in La Flèche , † January 1, 1794 in Angers ) was a French priest and martyr.
Life
After his ordination as a diocesan priest (world priest) René Lego worked as a vicar in Le Plessis-Grammoire in the Maine-et-Loire department.
During the crackdown on the popular uprising of the Vendée against the oppression of the Catholic Church by the First French Republic , he refused to take the oath of the Republic and went underground as a priest. At the end of December 1793, he was arrested together with his brother Jean-Baptiste Lego and other priests and lay people in La Cornuaille in the Maine-et-Loire department. The leader of this group was the priest Guillaume Répin .
Lego was brought to Angers, where a revolutionary tribunal sentenced it to death . On January 1, 1794, he was, in the main square of Angers, the capital of the department of Maine-et-Loire with the guillotine executed .
190 years later, on 19 February 1984 was René Lego, together with the other 98 members of this group of martyrs Pope . John Paul II in Rome beatified . His Catholic feast day is January 1st.
Web links
- Wilhelm Répin and companions , Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
- Johannes Baptist Lego and Renatus Lego , Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
Individual evidence
- ^ I Martiri di Giovanni Paolo II (1981-2003) Beatificazione celebrata a Roma il 19 febbraio 1984 , Vatican website, accessed on November 12, 2018
- ↑ Calendar January 1 , Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints, accessed on November 12, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lego, René |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lego, Renatus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French priest and martyr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Flèche |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1794 |
| Place of death | Angers |