Salomone Leclercq
The Vatican record
- 9 May 2016 — Miracle through their intercession approved (decree list, 2016)
Who they were
Guillaume-Nicolas-Louis Leclercq was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer on 14 November 1745, the son of a merchant, and was taught by the Brothers of the Christian Schools. His father meant him to take over the business, but after trying commerce in Paris he joined the Brothers, taking the name Salomon, and served them as a teacher, novice master, bursar and secretary to the superior general.
When the French Revolution required clergy to swear loyalty to the state and suppressed the religious orders, he refused to comply. He was arrested and killed in Paris on 2 September 1792, one of the martyrs of the September Massacres.
The miracles
A five-year-old girl — Caracas, Venezuela
A little girl was bitten on the left foot by an animal that at first could not be identified. She worsened quickly and was rushed to a clinic in Caracas, where doctors found two puncture wounds typical of a snakebite, with bruising spreading up her leg. She recovered, and on 3 March 2016 a large majority of the Vatican's medical board found her recovery scientifically inexplicable.
As a martyr he was beatified, with his companions killed in Paris in September 1792, without a miracle; the healing in Caracas was the miracle for his canonisation.
Why that counted as sanctity
The case of a five-year-old girl was examined by the Church's doctors and theologians and approved as a miracle on 9 May 2016, opening the way to canonisation. Canonisation followed on 16 October 2016 by Francis.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography of St Salomon Leclercq, with the miracle
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Not yet in Wikidata. Name as the Vatican spells it.
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.