Blessed Georges-Edme René
Also known as
- Giorgio Edmondo Renè
Profile
Son of a lawyer. Priest in the archdiocese of Sens, France. Canon of Vezelay, France. Imprisoned on a ship in the harbor of Rochefort, France and left to die during the anti–Catholic persecutions of the French Revolution for refusing to take the oath of loyalty to the government instead of the Church. One of the Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochefort.
Born
- 16 November 1748 in Saint-Pierre-de-Vézelay, Yonne, France
- 5pm on 2 October 1794 aboard the prison ship Washington, in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France of tuberculosis
- 2 July 1994 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Georges-Edme René“. CatholicSaints.Info. 11 August 2023. Web. 28 April 2024. <>