Pascal Vergez
Diocesan priest of Tarbes, died at Zöschen
Who they were
Pascal Vergez was a diocesan priest of Tarbes, born at Aucun on 17 March 1910 and baptised on 3 April; he entered the minor seminary of Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre and then the major seminary, and after his military service was ordained on 2 July 1935. Mobilised in 1939, he was captured and taken to Halle and Schkopau, and having refused to become a civilian worker he was still able to exercise his ministry until his arrest on 10 September 1944; he died at Zöschen on 12 December 1944, aged 34. He was beatified on 13 December 2025 by Pope Leo XIV.
The miracles
The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
He refused a change of status in order to keep his ministry among the prisoners, and died at Zöschen at 34.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - cayre-cendrier-vallee-mestre-e-46-compagni
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 13 December 2025
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.