Marie-Clotilde Angèle Paillot
virgin and martyr at Valenciennes
Feast: 23 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Valenciennes in France, Blessed Marie-Clotilde Angèle de Saint-François-Borgia (Clotilde-Josèphe) Paillot and five companions, virgins and martyrs, who, consecrated to God and condemned to death out of hatred for the faith during the French Revolution, went devoutly up to the scaffold under the admiring gaze of the people.
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 23 October as a virgin of Valenciennes condemned to death out of hatred for the faith during the French Revolution.
- Roman Martyrology, 23 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R19be0f1c — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.