Blessed Robert Guérin du Rocher

Robert Guérin du Rocher was born in Repas in 1736. He was the younger brother of Petrus and like his brother became a Jesuit priest. He did missionary work in the Middle east and eventually settled as a pastor in Salonika, before being expelled by the Ottomans. On returning to France he bacmae spiritual director for the Sisters of the Visitation in Paris. On 2 September 1792 he was one of the priests, along with his older brother Petrus killed by a mob in the September Massacres. 134 years later he and his fellow Holy September Martyrs were beatified by Pope Pius XI in October 1926