Charles-Antoine-Nicolas Ancel
French Blessed of Catholic Church (1763-1794)
Feast: 29 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the stretch of sea off Rochefort on the French coast, Blessed Charles-Antoine-Nicolas Ancel, priest of the Society of Jesus and Mary and martyr, who, during the French Revolution, confined as a priest on a galley in inhuman conditions, completed his martyrdom consumed by a deadly contagion.
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 29 July as a priest martyr who died of contagion on 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, 29 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q20738722 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.