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Marie Cassin
married woman and martyr at Avrillé
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Feast: 1 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
At Avrillé near Angers in France, the passion of Blesseds Marie Vaillot and forty-six companions, martyrs, who, in the time of the Terror during the French Revolution, won the crown of martyrdom. Among those named is Blessed Marie Cassin, a married woman.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 1 February as one of the forty-seven women martyred at Avrillé near Angers in the Terror of the French Revolution, listed as a married woman.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 1 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R634fed0d — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.