Marcel Touquet
Layman, died at Bergen-Belsen
Who they were
Marcel Touquet was a layman born at Corrèze on 10 October 1914 and baptised in September 1919; a warehouseman, he joined the Young Christian Workers between 1940 and 1941 and became a federal member. He fought as a sergeant at Sedan in 1939 and 1940, married Germaine Defrain in 1942 and had a son, for whose birth and baptism he obtained leave from Berlin, where he had been working since February 1943 and also acting as an informer for the Resistance; arrested on 25 August 1944, he died at Bergen-Belsen at the end of January 1945. He was beatified on 13 December 2025 by Pope Leo XIV.
The miracles
The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A husband and father who worked for the Young Christian Workers and the Resistance from Berlin, he died at Bergen-Belsen.
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 - cayre-cendrier-vallee-mestre-e-46-compagni
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 13 December 2025
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.