Louis-François Lebrun
Feast: 20 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In a galley anchored off Rochefort on the French coast, Blesseds Louis-François Lebrun and Gervais Brunel, priests and martyrs, of whom the first was a monk of the Benedictine Congregation of Saint Maur and the second prior of the Cistercian abbey of the Trappists: both were handed over to inhuman imprisonment during the French Revolution and consummated their martyrdom consumed by disease.
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 20 August as a Maurist Benedictine monk who died in a prison galley off Rochefort.
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, 20 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q83259330 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.