Charles-René Collas du Bignon
Who they were
In the stretch of sea off Rochefort in France, Blessed Charles-René Collas du Bignon, priest of the Society of Saint-Sulpice and martyr, who, rector of the Minor Seminary of Bourges, was shut up in a galley during the French Revolution for his priesthood, where he died consumed by infected sores.
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 3 June as a Sulpician priest who died 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, 3 June (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q107000040 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.