Sébastien Desbrielles
schoolmaster in Paris and martyr at Paris
Feast: 3 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Paris in France, the passion of Blessed André-Abel Alricy, priest, and seventy-one companions, martyrs, for the most part priests who, after a first slaughter carried out the day before, were shut up in the seminary of Saint-Firmin as in a prison and were killed out of hatred for the Church.
Among those named is Blessed Sébastien Desbrielles, schoolmaster in Paris.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 3 September among those killed in the seminary of Saint-Firmin at Paris out of hatred for the Church.
- Roman Martyrology, 3 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R3d3b8451 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.