On a prison ship anchored in the open sea off the coast of Rochefort in France, Blessed Paul-Jean Charles, priest and martyr, who, prior of the Cistercians, when the French persecution was raging, was carried off by its agents on account of his priesthood from the monastery of Sept-Fons to confinement on the ships, and died, overcome by starvation and disease.
August 25th
Blessed Paul-Jean Charles
Latin Original
In pode actuária in salo constitüta ante oram Rupifórtii in Gállia, beáti Pauli Ioánnis Charles, presbyteri et mártyris, qui, prior Cistercién: SIS, gállica perturbatióne szeviénte, a sectatóribus propter sacerdótium de monastério Septem Fóntium ad navália víncula ablátus, inédia morbóque corréptus occübuit.