Nicolas Savouret
Conventual Franciscan priest, director of the Poor Clares of Moulins, martyr
Who they were
The decree on martyrdom describes him as a priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual and director of the Poor Clares of Moulins, born on 27 February 1733 and dead on 16 July; the Roman Martyrology remembers him with Claude Béguignot, both forced during the French Revolution into a squalid imprisonment aboard a ship off Rochefort in hatred of their priesthood, where they died worn out by disease. He was beatified on 1 October 1995 by John Paul II, among Jean-Baptiste Souzy and his sixty-three companions whose martyrdom in 1794-1795 the decree declared.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology says he was forced into a squalid imprisonment in hatred of his priesthood and died worn out by disease.
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
- Jean-Baptiste Souzy Blessed“He was beatified on 1 October 1995 by John Paul II, among Jean-Baptiste Souzy and his sixty-three companions whose martyrdom in 1794-1795 the decree declared.” — this site's research
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 87 (1995), p. 20 - decree on martyrdom
- Roman Martyrology, 16 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 1 October 1995
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.