On the open sea off Rochefort in France, Blessed Charles-René Collas du Bignon, priest of the Society of Saint Sulpice and martyr, who, rector of the Minor Seminary of Bourges, when the French Revolution was raging, was on account of his priesthood confined in a prison ship and, infected with festering sores, died.
June 3rd
Blessed Charles-René Collas du Bignon
Latin Original
In salo apud Rupifórtium in Gállia, beáti Cároli Renáti Collas du Bignon, presbyteri e Societáte a Sancto Sulpítio et mártyris, qui, rector Seminárii Minóris Bituricénsis, gállica perturbatióne szviénte, propter sacerdótium 1n navem servitütis inclásus et plagis verminósis inféctus occübuit.