Antoine Chevrier
French presbyter (1826–1879)
Feast: 2 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Antoine Chevrier was born at Lyon on 16 April 1826 to a modest family and was ordained in 1850. He began as curate in a working-class parish on the edge of the city.
In 1856, praying before the crib, he grasped the poverty of God made man. He founded the Work of Providence of the Prado to prepare priests to teach the Christian faith to poor young people. He died on 2 October 1879 after a long illness.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest who, moved by the poverty of Christ in the crib, gave himself and his priests to the poor.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Antoine Chevrier
- Wikidata Q2054855 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Antoine Chevrier (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.