Paul-Jean Charles
Who they were
In a squalid galley anchored off Rochefort in France, Blessed Paul-Jean Charles, priest and martyr, who, a Cistercian prior, in the course of the French Revolution was torn by the persecutors from the monastery of Septfontaines because of his priesthood and handed over to naval arrest, and died consumed by starvation and 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 August as a Cistercian prior who died in a prison galley off Rochefort.
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, 25 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q112612586 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.