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Guillaume Repin
French presbyter
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Feast: 2 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1709
Died
1794
Beatified
19 February 1984
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Canonised
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Who they were
At Angers in France, Blesseds Guillaume Repin and Laurent Bâtard, priests and martyrs, who, while the French Revolution raged, were guillotined for their fidelity to the Church.
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 January as a priest and martyr guillotined at Angers during the French Revolution.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 2 January (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q533956 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Guillaume Repin (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.