Off the coast of France, on a ship at anchor before Rochefort, Blessed Philip Papon, priest of Autun and martyr, who, a parish priest, during the upheaval of the French Revolution was cast into the squalor of captivity on account of his priesthood; having absolved a dying fellow prisoner, he himself died.
June 17th
Blessed Philip Papon
Latin Original
Ad Gálliz litus in navi ad áncoram ante Rupifórtium, beáti Philíppi Papon, presbyteri Augustodunénsis et mártyris, qui, párochus, témpore gállicz perturbatiónis propter sacerdótium ad labem captivitátis detrüásus, cum concaptívum moribündum absolvísset, ipse occübuit.