Robert Guérin du Rocher
French Jesuit
Feast: 3 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Paris in France, the passion of Blessed André Abel Alricy, priest, and seventy-one companions, martyrs, for the most part priests, who, after a first massacre carried out the previous day, were shut up in the Seminary of Saint-Firmin as in a prison and slaughtered out of hatred of the Church. Among those named is Blessed Robert Guérin du Rocher, priest.
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 3 September among the martyrs, mostly priests, slaughtered in the Seminary of Saint-Firmin in Paris out of hatred of the Church.
The cause
Robert Guérin du Rocher has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Jesuits: Blessed Robert Guérin du Rocher.
Connected on this site
- Petrus Guérin du Rocher Blessed“On the 2nd September 1792 he was one of the priests, along with his brother Robert Guérin du Rocher killed by a mob in the September Massacres.” — Wikipedia
- Roman Martyrology, 3 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q1938530 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Robert Guérin du Rocher (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.