Pierre-Joseph Le Groing de la Romagere
Who they were
In a squalid galley at anchor in the sea off Rochefort in France, Blesseds Marcel Gaucher Labiche de Reignefort, of the Society of the Missions, and Pierre-Joseph Le Groing de la Romagere, priests and martyrs: the first from the territory of Limoges, the other from Bourges, during the French Revolution they were delivered in hatred of the faith to inhuman imprisonment, dying afterwards exhausted 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 26 July as a priest martyr who died of starvation and disease on a prison galley off Rochefort during the French 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.
- Roman Martyrology, 26 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q41688331 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.