Bernard Lemaire
Layman, died at Buchenwald
Who they were
Bernard Lemaire was a layman born at Gonneville-la-Mallet on 27 July 1920 and baptised in the parish there on 3 August; a carpenter at Le Havre, he helped found a new parish and in 1938 joined the Young Christian Workers, founding its parish section and becoming departmental treasurer and a federal member. Taken first into the Organisation Todt and then into the compulsory labour service, he left for the Cologne area on 20 July 1943 and died at Buchenwald on 11 October 1944. He was beatified on 13 December 2025 by Pope Leo XIV.
The miracles
The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A carpenter and leader of the Young Christian Workers at Le Havre, he was taken for forced labour near Cologne and died at Buchenwald.
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 - cayre-cendrier-vallee-mestre-e-46-compagni
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 13 December 2025
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.