Florent Dumontet de Cardaillac
Feast: 5 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In a squalid ship anchored in the sea off Rochefort in France, Blessed Florent Dumontet de Cardaillac, priest and martyr, who, condemned for his priesthood during the French Revolution, completed his martyrdom in sickness, a victim of his charity and zeal in assisting his sick fellow prisoners.
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 5 September as a priest who died on a prison ship off Rochefort while caring for his sick fellow prisoners.
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, 5 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q30177835 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.