Michel-Louis Brulard
French Catholic priest
Feast: 25 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
On a galley anchored off Rochefort on the French coast, Blessed Michel-Louis Brulard, priest of the Order of Discalced Carmelites and martyr, who during the French Revolution was confined in inhuman conditions because of his priesthood and died worn out 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 25 July as a Discalced Carmelite priest who died of disease on a prison galley off Rochefort during the French Revolution.
The cause
Michel-Louis Brulard has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Carmelites in France: the blessed martyrs of the Rochefort prison ships.
- Roman Martyrology, 25 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3308785 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.