Jean Mopinot
Who they were
Off Rochefort on the French coast, Blessed Jean Mopinot, Brother of the Christian Schools and martyr, who, during the French Revolution, was held, as a religious, in a squalid galley, where he died of sickness.
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 21 May as a Brother of the Christian Schools who died of sickness 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, 21 May (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q112612929 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.