Jean-Baptiste Guillaume
Who they were
In the sea off Rochefort in France, in a squalid galley lying at anchor, the Blessed martyrs Jean-Baptiste Souzy, priest, and Ulric (Jean-Baptiste) Guillaume, Brother of the Christian Schools, who during the persecution against the Church underwent inhuman imprisonment and died for Christ, consumed by hunger and 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 27 August as a Brother of the Christian Schools who died 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.
Connected on this site
- Jean-Baptiste Souzy Blessed“In the sea off Rochefort in France, in a squalid galley lying at anchor, the Blessed martyrs Jean-Baptiste Souzy, priest, and Ulric (Jean-Baptiste) Guillaume, Brother of the Christian Schools, who during the persecution against the Church underwent inhuman imprisonment and died for Christ, consumed by hunger and…” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 27 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q112612950 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.