Jean Chavet
Layman, died at Mauthausen
Who they were
Jean Chavet was a layman born at Saint-Étienne on 10 August 1922 and baptised there on 13 August; from 1939 he studied industrial chemistry at the Catholic Institute of Lyon and joined the Young Christian Students. A year later he went under the compulsory labour service to Schkopau, where he took on responsibility for the French workers and had an important spiritual role in hut 22 of the Buna works, known as the chemists' hut; he was arrested there by the Gestapo on 2 November 1944 and died at Mauthausen on 24 April 1945, aged 22. He was beatified on 13 December 2025 by Pope Leo XIV.
The miracles
The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
He was the spiritual centre of the French workers' hut at Schkopau, and died at Mauthausen at 22.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - cayre-cendrier-vallee-mestre-e-46-compagni
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 13 December 2025
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.