André Grasset

Blessed

André Grasset
BornAndré Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
3 April 1758
Montreal, New France, Kingdom of France
Died2 September 1792 (aged 34)
Paris, France
Beatified1 October 1926, Rome by Pope Pius XI

André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (3 April 1758 – 2 September 1792) was a Canadian-born French Catholic priest who was martyred in Paris during the French Revolution. In 1926, he became the first Canadian-born person to be beatified.

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