Claude-Joseph Jouffret de Bonnefond
Who they were
In the stretch of sea off Rochefort on the French coast, Blesseds Claude-Joseph Jouffret de Bonnefond, of the Society of Priests of Saint-Sulpice, Francis François, of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and Lazare Tiersot, of the Carthusian Order, priests and martyrs, who, confined during the French Revolution in a foul galley, suffered martyrdom for their priesthood.
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 10 August as a Sulpician priest martyred for his priesthood on a prison ship off Rochefort.
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, 10 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q112613031 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.