Jean-Michel Langevin
French Catholic priest and martyr (1731-1793)
Feast: 30 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Jean-Michel Langevin was born at Ingrandes-sur-Loire on 28 September 1731 and became parish priest of Briollay.
Captured at Le Mesnil during the French Revolution, he was guillotined on 30 October 1793, one of the 99 martyrs of Angers who died for their fidelity to the Church.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A parish priest guillotined in 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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Jean-Michel Langevin
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 19 February 1984
- Wikidata Q24938122 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.