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BL. LADISLAS RADIGUE, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 26 MAY

 

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BLESSED LADISLAS RADIGUE, PRIEST AND MARTYR

Blessed Ladislas Radigue (centre left) and his 
fellow priest martyrs

Father Ladislas Radigue, born on May 8, 1823, grew up in Normandy and pursued his priestly vocation at a college run by the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Picpus Fathers). For twenty years, he trained novices. Among those he influenced and in whose formation he was involved was Father Damien. Father Ladislas was eventually elected prior of the motherhouse of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. On April 13, he - and other religious figures who had also been imprisoned - were moved to Mazas Prison. Along with other Catholic priests, namely: Father Polycarpe Tuffier, Father Marcellin Rouchouze, Father Frezal Tardieu and the Vincentian priest Father Henri Planchat he was executed by firing squad during the harrowing Haxo Street Massacre of the Paris Commune on May 26, 1871.

These holy priests were beatified as martyrs on April 22, 2023.

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr Ladislas confessed the faith, may experience his goodness as he intercedes for us with you. 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.

Sources: - https://www.aciafrique.org/amp/news/7749/cinq-pretres-francais-martyrises-lors-de-linsurrection-anticatholique-de-1871-beatifies-a-paris - https://ewtn.co.uk/article-five-french-priests-martyred-in-anti-catholic-uprising-of-1871-beatified-in-paris/ - https://youtu.be/rH0AB1CDBvU?si=HMHyxc8nlIDAslyj


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