Jacques Retouret
Feast: 26 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Off Rochefort on the French coast, Blessed Jacques Retouret, priest of the Carmelite Order and martyr, who, in the course of the French Revolution, was dragged from the convent of Limoges and thrown into a squalid galley, where, left almost without clothing, he died of cold in the night.
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 26 August as a Carmelite priest who died of cold in a prison galley 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, 26 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3159864 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.