Jacques Gagnot
French priest
Feast: 10 September (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, Blessed Jacques Gagnot, priest of the Carmelite Order and martyr, who, inhumanly thrown into a squalid ship during the French Revolution because of his priesthood, died consumed by gangrene while caring for 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 10 September as a Carmelite priest who died on a prison ship off Rochefort while caring for 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, 10 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3158960 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.