Jean Henri Louis Samson
priest and martyr at Paris
Feast: 2 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Paris in France, the passion of the 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 for religion because they had refused to take the impious oath imposed on the clergy during the French Revolution.
Among those named is Blessed Jean Henri Louis Samson, 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 those killed in the convent of the Carmelites at Paris for refusing the oath imposed on the clergy during the French Revolution.
Connected on this site
- Pierre-Louis de La Rochefoucauld Blessed“At Paris in France, the passion of the 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 for religion because they…” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 2 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R625a0e30 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.