Pierre-François Jamet
French presbyter (1762-1843)
Feast: 12 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Pierre-François Jamet was born at Fresnes, Normandy, on 12 September 1762 and ordained on 22 September 1787. In 1790 he became chaplain to the Daughters of the Good Saviour at Caen.
During the Revolution he refused the oath, was arrested and threatened with death. Freed, he said Mass in secret and sustained the scattered sisters and the persecuted faithful. From 1819 he was their superior.
The miracles
The Dicastery's biography does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest who kept a community of sisters alive through the Revolution.
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 - biography: Pierre-François Jamet
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 10 May 1987
- Wikidata Q2014623 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Pierre-François Jamet (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.