Aug 20

Blessed Gervais Brunel

August 20th XVIII century

Name
Gervasio (Masculino)
Celebrate
People named Gervasio use to celebrate 19-Jun:
Saint Gervasius of Milan
Other saints
Other saints named Gervasio
Dead
August 20th 1794 in Rochefort, in current France
Celebration
August 20th
Religious
de la Orden del Císter
On a ship anchored against Rochefort on the French coast, blessed Louise Francois Le Brun and Gervais Brunel, priests and martyrs. One was a monk of the Benedictine Congregation of saint Maurice, and the other, prior of the Abbey of the Trappist monastery of the Cistercian order. Both held inhumanely during the French Revolution, consummated the martyrdom depleted by disease. Roman martyrology