Antoine Charmet
Who they were
Antoine Charmet, born on 26 December 1906 at Saint-Martin-la-Plaine and died on 2 April 1945 at Buchenwald, was a French Catholic priest and a victim of Nazism. He is one of the fifty French martyrs of the Second World War beatified on 13 December 2025 at a Mass in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Summary translated from the French Wikipedia article Antoine Charmet (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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The cause
Antoine Charmet has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Diocese of Paris: Blessed Antoine Charmet.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — Cayré, Cendrier, Vallée, Mestre e 46 compagni — Named on the Vatican page: "abbé Antoine Charmet della diocesi di Saint-Étienne", one of the martyrs of the French Revolution.
- Wikidata Q27068131 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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