Michel Leber
priest and martyr at Paris
Feast: 3 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Paris in France, the passion of Blessed André-Abel Alricy, priest, and seventy-one companions, martyrs, for the most part priests who, after a first slaughter carried out the day before, were shut up in the seminary of Saint-Firmin as in a prison and were killed out of hatred for the Church.
Among those named is Blessed Michel Leber, priest.
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 3 September among those killed in the seminary of Saint-Firmin at Paris out of hatred for the Church.
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.