On a squalid prison ship anchored in the open sea before Rochefort in France, Blessed Claude Richard, priest of the Order of Saint Benedict and martyr, who, in the time of the French Revolution, was driven from his monastery for his priesthood and cast into a ship of bondage; while he tended his sick fellow captives, he himself was seized by the contagion and died.
August 9th
Blessed Claude Richard, Priest and Martyr
Latin Original
In sórdida actuária ad áncoras constitáta in salo ante Rupifórtium in Gállia, beáti Cláudii Richard, presbyteri ex Ordine Sancti Benedícti et mártyris, qui témpore gállicee perturbatiónis propter sacerdótium e Nlediáno monastério pulsus et in navem servitátis coniéctus, dum concaptivis aegrótis assidébat, ipse contagióne corréptus óbiit. 443