François François
Capuchin priest and martyr
Feast: 10 August (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, Blesseds Claude-Joseph Jouffret de Bonnefont, of the Company of the Priests of Saint Sulpice, François 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 squalid prison ship, 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 Capuchin priest who suffered martyrdom for his priesthood in 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.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.