Jean-Baptiste Vernoy de Montjournal
priest and martyr on the galleys at Rochefort
Feast: 1 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
On a galley anchored off Rochefort in France, Blessed Jean-Baptiste Vernoy de Montjournal, priest and martyr, who, a canon of Moulins, during the French Revolution, condemned for his priesthood to confinement on the ships, died struck down by illness.
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 1 June as a canon of Moulins who, condemned for his priesthood during the French Revolution, died of illness on a 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.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.