Jean-Louis Loir
Feast: 19 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the stretch of sea off Rochefort in France, Blessed Jean-Baptiste Xavier (Jean-Louis) Loir, priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and martyr, who, during the French Revolution, imprisoned when nearly eighty in a galley for his priesthood, was found dead on his knees.
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 19 May as a Capuchin priest and martyr who died on a prison ship 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, 19 May (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q112116282 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.