SAINT SOLOMON LECLERCQ, MARTYR

SAINT SOLOMON LECLERCQ, MARTYR - 2 SEPTEMBER

SAINT SOLOMON LECLERCQ, MARTYR

Saint Solomon Leclercq (born Guillaume-Nicolas-Louis) is a French Lasallian martyr (1745-1792).

HE RECEIVED THE NAME "BROTHER SOLOMON"

Born in November 1745, Guillaume-Nicolas-Louis Leclercq joined the brothers of the Christian schools in 1767 and received the name Brother Solomon. After a number of years teaching mathematics, he was appointed as the secretary to the Superior General, Brother Agathon, in 1778.

HE REFUSED TO TAKE THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

At the time of the French Revolution he refused to take the oath of allegiance. He was arrested on August 15, 1792 and executed at the Carmelite convent on September 2 with 188 companion martyrs, including a hundred priests who refused to take the oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.

Brother Solomon was beatified on October 17, 1926 and canonised on October 16, 2016.

A WONDERFUL MIRACLE

A wonderful miracle: In Sabaneta di El Hatillo, Venezuela, a group of the faithful gathered in 2007 there to pray through the intercession of Blessed Solomon for the care and cure of a five-year-old girl, Maria Hernandez, who had been bitten by a poisonous snake. As the doctors were making preparations to amputate the little girl’s leg, she suddenly recovered and her leg healed completely. The miracle, proven by a medical board of examiners, was attributed to the intercession of Saint Solomon.

PRAYER:

May the intercession of Saint Solomon commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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