Jean-François Jarrige de La Morelie du Breuil
Who they were
In the stretch of sea off Rochefort in France, Blessed Jean-François Jarrige de La Morelie du Breuil, priest and martyr, who, during the persecution against the Church in the course of the French Revolution, was thrown into a squalid galley, where he died of consumption.
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 31 July as a priest martyr who died of consumption on a prison galley off Rochefort during the French Revolution.
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, 31 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q114349646 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.