ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 16th of July WELCOME! BLESSED NICHOLAS SAVOURET AND BLESSED CLAUDE BEGUIGNOT, PRIESTS AND MARTYRS Today we remember the two holy priests who died aboard a prison ship anchored off Rochefort, France: Blesseds Nicolas Savouret, of the Conventual Order of Friars Minor (born February 2, 1773 in Jouvelle, France, died July 7, 1794 on the prison hulk Deux-Associés, in Rochefort, France) and Claude Beguignot, of the Carthusian Order (born June 19, 1736 in Langres, France, died July 16, 1794 on the prison hulk Deux-Associés, in Rochefort), priests and martyrs, who, during the French Revolution, locked up in hatred of the priesthood in a sordid galley, perished there consumed by illness. They were beatified on October 1, 1995 by Pope John Paul II. 📷 An early Victorian prison hulk PRAYER: Grant to your Church, we beseech you, O Lord, through the intercession of your holy martyrs Nicholas Savouret and Claude Beguignot, not to thin...