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Antoine Banassat
French politician
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Feast: 18 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1729
Died
1794
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
In a galley anchored off Rochefort in France, Blessed Antoine Banassat, priest and martyr, who, a parish priest imprisoned out of hatred for the faith during the French Revolution, passed to the Lord worn out by hardship.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 18 August as a parish priest who died in a prison galley off Rochefort during the French Revolution.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 18 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2853634 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.