Blessed Jean-Baptiste Laborie du Vivier

• 27 September

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Priest in the diocese of Maçon, France. Imprisoned on a ship in the harbor of Rochefort, France and left to die during the anti–Catholic persecutions of the French Revolution. One of the Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochefort.

Born

• 19 September 1734 in Maçon, Saône-et-Loire, France

Died

• 27 September 1794 aboard the prison ship Deux-Associés, in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France

Venerated

• 2 July 1994 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II

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• “Blessed Jean-Baptiste Laborie du Vivier“. CatholicSaints.Info. 3 August 2015. Web. 3 August 2015. <>