Aug 11

Blessed Jean Georges Rhem

August 11th XVIII century

Name
Juan Jorge (Masculino)
Secular name
Jacobo Rhem
Dead
Celebration
August 11th
Religious
de la Orden de Predicadores
Near the coast of France, to the port of Rochefort, blessed Jean Georges (James) Rhem, priest of the order of preachers and martyr. Locked up during the persecution in a squalid prison, rising hopes of his fellow cellmates, cruelly tortured, until he himself, for Christ's sake, died of an incurable disease. Roman martyrology