Élie Leymarie de Laroche
Feast: 10 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the sea off Rochefort in France, Blessed Élie Leymarie de Laroche, priest and martyr, who, thrown during the French Revolution into a squalid galley anchored at sea and cruelly mistreated, died stricken by disease.
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 22 August as a priest who died in 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, 22 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3050965 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.