Natalis Pinot
French catholic priest (1747-1794)
Feast: 21 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Angers in France, Blessed Natalis Pinot, priest and martyr: a parish priest during the French Revolution, he was arrested while preparing to celebrate Mass and, dressed in mockery in the sacred vestments, was led to the scaffold as to the altar of sacrifice.
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 21 February as a parish priest arrested during the French Revolution and led to the scaffold in his Mass vestments.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 21 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q321617 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Noël Pinot (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.