Blessed Nikolas Verron

Nikolas Verron, born in Quimperlé in 1740 and murdered in Paris on September 3, 1792, was a Jesuit priest and martyr. He is one of the Martyrs of September 1792, beatified by Pope Pius XI on October 17, 1926. Nikolas Verron was a teacher in Paris when the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit order) was suppressed in France in 1762. Afterward, he served as a chaplain to nuns in Paris. He refused to swear obedience to the new laws concerning the Church and the clergy (the Civil Constitution of the Clergy). He was sent to the Saint-Firmin prison in Paris and put to death on September 3, 1792, during the September Massacres. Claude Laporte, Vincent Rousseau, and François Le Livec, who were also Jesuits from the dioceses of Quimper and Léon, were put to death alongside him. His feast day is commemorated on September 2.