Antoine Banassat
French politician
Feast: 18 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In a galley anchored off Rochefort in France, Blessed Antoine Banassat, priest and martyr, who, a parish priest imprisoned out of hatred for the faith during the French Revolution, passed to the Lord worn out by hardship.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 18 August as a parish priest who died in a prison galley off Rochefort during the French Revolution.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Roman Martyrology, 18 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2853634 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.