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Marie Grillard
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 Grillard, sister of Blessed Renée Grillard.
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 sister of Blessed Renée Grillard.
Connected on this site
- Renée Grillard Blessed“Among those named is Blessed Marie Grillard, sister of Blessed Renée Grillard.” — this site's research
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 1 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rf3f08371 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.