Nicasius van Heeze

Who they were

At Brielle on the Maas in Holland, the passion of the holy martyrs Nicholas Pieck, priest, and ten companions of the Order of Friars Minor and eight of the diocesan or religious clergy, who, to defend against the Calvinists the doctrine of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the authority of the Church of Rome, suffered mockery and tortures of various kinds, completing their martyrdom by hanging.

Among those named is Saint Nicasius van Heeze, a priest of the Order of Friars Minor.

The miracles

The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 9 July among the companions of Saint Nicholas Pieck, hanged at Brielle for defending the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the authority of the Church of Rome.

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  “At Brielle on the Maas in Holland, the passion of the holy martyrs Nicholas Pieck, priest, and ten companions of the Order of Friars Minor and eight of the diocesan or religious clergy, who, to defend against the Calvinists the doctrine of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the authority of the Church…” — this site's research