Michel Coquelet
French missionary
Feast: 16 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Michel Coquelet was a priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate serving in Laos. With his confrere Father Louis Leroy he refused to leave his mission stations in the mountains of Xieng Khouang, going on praying, teaching the faith and caring for the sick.
He was killed in hatred of the faith on 20 April 1961, at the age of thirty, and is one of the martyrs of Laos beatified in 2016.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A young Oblate missionary who would not abandon the poor of the Laotian mountains and died for the faith.
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.
Connected on this site
- Louis Leroy Blessed“With his confrere Father Louis Leroy he refused to leave his mission stations in the mountains of Xieng Khouang, going on praying, teaching the faith and caring for the sick.” — this site's research
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Michel Coquelet
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 11 December 2016
- Wikidata Q18214449 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.