On a prison ship anchored in the open sea off Rochefort in France, Blessed Antoine Banassat, priest and martyr, who, a parish priest during the raging French Revolution, was imprisoned out of hatred for the faith and passed to the Lord through starvation.
August 18th
Blessed Antoine Banassat
Latin Original
In navi servitátis 1n salo constitáta apud Rupifórtium in Gállia, beáti Antónii Banassat, presbyteri et mártyris, qui, párochus, saeviénte gállica perturbatióne, in ódium fídei deténtus esüárie ad Dóminum migrávit.