Blessed Célestin Ringeard

Célestin Marie Georges Maxime Ringeard, born on July 29, 1933, in Touvois, Loire-Atlantique, and died in Algeria after late April 1996, was one of the seven monks of Tibhirine whose fate inspired the film Of Gods and Men by Xavier Beauvois, which won an award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The diocesan process for the opening of the cause for beatification of the monks and twelve other religious men and women murdered during the "Years of Lead" (1993–2000) in Algeria began in 2007 and reached its conclusion: Célestin Ringeard was proclaimed Blessed on December 8, 2018, along with the other martyrs of Algeria.