Jean Protais Bourdon
Capuchin priest and martyr
Feast: 23 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At anchor in the sea off Rochefort on the French coast, Blessed Jean (Protais) Bourdon, priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and martyr, who, put on a prison ship during the French Revolution together with many other priests, died worn away by disease while bringing comfort to his fellow prisoners.
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 23 August as a Capuchin priest who died of disease on a prison ship off Rochefort while comforting his fellow prisoners.
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.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.