July 16th

Blessed Nicolas Savouret and Claude Béguignot, Martyrs

Blessed · Common of Martyrs · Rochefort, France · d. 1794

On a prison ship lying at anchor off Rochefort on the coast of France, Blessed Nicolas Savouret, of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, and Claude Béguignot, of the Carthusian Order, priests and martyrs, who, while the French Revolution raged, were held in squalid captivity out of hatred for the priesthood and were carried off by disease.

Latin Original

In navi servitütis ad áncoram constitáta ante Rupifórtium ad oram Gállize, beatórum Nicolái Savouret, ex Ordine Fratrum Minórum Conventuálium, et Cláudi Béguignot, ex Ordine Cartusiénsi, presbyterórum et mártyrum, qui, gállica perturbatióne szviénte, in ódium sacerdótii in sórdida captivitáte deténti, morbo corrépti sunt.