Marie-Cordule Barré
Ursuline virgin and martyr at Valenciennes
Feast: 23 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Valenciennes in France, Blessed Marie-Clotilde Angèle de Saint-François-Borgia (Clotilde-Josèphe) Paillot and five companions, virgins and martyrs, who, consecrated to God and condemned to death out of hatred for the faith during the French Revolution, went devoutly up to the scaffold under the admiring gaze of the people.
Among those named is Blessed Marie-Cordule Joséphine de Saint-Dominique (Jeanne-Louise) Barré, of the Order of Saint Ursula.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 23 October among the virgins of Valenciennes condemned to death out of hatred for the faith 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.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.