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Guillaume-Antoine Delfaud

French Jesuit

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Feast: 2 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1733
Died
1792
Beatified
not on record
Canonised
not yet

Who they were

At Paris in France, the passion of Blessed martyrs Jean Marie du Lau d'Allemans, François-Joseph and Pierre-Louis de la Rochefoucauld, bishops, and ninety-three companions, clerics or religious, who, gathered in the convent of the Carmelites, were slaughtered for Christ out of hatred of religion for having refused to take the impious oath imposed on the clergy during the French Revolution. Among those named is Blessed Guillaume-Antoine Delfaud, priest.

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 2 September among the martyrs slaughtered at the Carmelite convent in Paris for refusing the oath imposed on the clergy during the French Revolution.

Connected on this site

  • Jean Marie du Lau Blessed
    “At Paris in France, the passion of Blessed martyrs Jean Marie du Lau d'Allemans, François-Joseph and Pierre-Louis de la Rochefoucauld, bishops, and ninety-three companions, clerics or religious, who, gathered in the convent of the Carmelites, were slaughtered for Christ out of hatred of religion for having refused…” — this site's research
Sources

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