In the roadstead near Rochefort off the coast of France, Blessed Charles Nicolas Antoine Ancel, priest of the Society of Jesus and Mary and martyr, who, during the time of the French Revolution, was inhumanely detained aboard a prison ship because he was a priest, and, stricken by a grievous pestilence, completed his martyrdom.
July 29th
Blessed Charles Nicolas Antoine Ancel
Latin Original
In freto prope Rupifórtium ad oram Gálliz, beáti Cároli Nicolái Antónii Ancel, presbyteri e Societáte Iesu et Maríze et mártyris, qui, témpore gállica perturbatiónis in navi servitüátis inhumáne ütpote sacérdos deténtus, tristi contagióne corréptus martyrium complévit.