27 May – Last Martyrs of the Paris Commune

AUGUSTE-ALEXIS SURAT – ÉMILE-VICTOR BÉCOURT – JEAN-BAPTISTE HOUILLON

Catholic Encyclopedia

Wikipedia – Auguste-Alexis Surat, Jean-Baptiste Houillon

The Holiness of the Church in the Nineteenth Century: Saintly Men and Women of Our Own Times

Hagiography Circle

Fleurs sacerdotales déposées sur la tombe de M. l’abbé Bécourt

Art & Architecture

Wikimedia Commons – Auguste-Alexis Surat

Dévotion aux saintes reliques – Post on the 150th anniversity of the Martyrs de la Commune de 1871

Tomb of Monsignor Auguste-Alexis Surat in the Église Saint-Pierre de Charenton-le-Pont

Tomb of Father Émile-Victor Bécourt in the cimetière in Villejuif

Tomb of Father Jean-Baptiste Houillon in Montparnasse Cemetery

26 May – Martyrs of the Paris Commune, Massacre in the Rue Haxo

Portret van R.P. Marie Matthieu-Henri Planchat (above left); Sabatier (above right)

JEAN-MARIE-NOËL SABATIER – PAUL SEIGNERET

Servant of God PIERRE OLIVAINT – JEAN CAUBERT – ANATOLE DE BENGY

Blessed MATHIEU-HENRI PLANCHAT – Blessed ARMAND RADIGUE (LADISLAS) – Blessed JULES TUFFIER (POLYCARPE) – Blessed JEAN-MARIE ROUCHOUZE (MARCELLIN) – Blessed JEAN-PIERRE EUGÈNE TARDIEU (FRÉZAL)

Catholic Encyclopedia, also entries on Pierre Olivaint, Anatole de Bengy

Wikipedia, also entries on Pierre Olivaint, Anatole de Bengy, Henri Planchat, Ladislas Radigue, Polycarpe Tuffier, Marcellin Rouchouze, Frézal Tardieu

The Holiness of the Church in the Nineteenth Century: Saintly Men and Women of Our Own Times

The life of Paul Seigneret, seminarist of Saint Sulpice : shot at Belleville, Paris, May 26, 1871

“Catholic priests martyred during Paris Commune are beatified”

“Remembering the Catholic Martyrs of the Commune of Paris”

“« À mort les calotins ! », le massacre des otages de la rue Haxo”

“Béatification : portrait du prêtre ornais assassiné pendant la Commune”

“Ladislas, Polycarpe, Frézal et Marcellin, les quatre martyrs picpuciens”

Hagiography Circle

Art & Architecture

Wikimedia Commons , also galleries for Jean-Marie Noël Sabatier, Ladislas Radigue, Henri Planchat, Ladislas Radigue e 3 compagni

Notre-Dame des Otages, Wikimedia Commons, Church Website

Tombs of the Jesuit Fathers Pierre Olivaint, Jean Caubert, and Anatole de Bengy in the Chapelle des Martyrs at St Ignace

The tombs of the Fathers of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Picpus: Ladislas Radigue, Polycarpe Tuffier, Marcellin Rouchouze and Frézal Tardieu in the Picpus cemetery

25 May – Dominicains d’Arcueil, Martyrs of the Paris Commune

The Dominicans: FRANÇOIS-EUGÉNE CAPTIER (LOUIS-RAPHAËL) – LOUIS-FERDINAND BOURARD (THOMAS) – EUGÉNE DELHORME (CONSTANT) – HENRI COTRAULT – GABRIEL CHATAGNERET (PIE-MARIE)

LOUIS-EUGÉNE-ANTOINE GAUQUELIN (mathematics teacher) – FRANÇOIS-HERMAND VOLANT (overseer) – AIMÉ GROS (servant) – ANTOINE-Gézelin MARCE (servant) – THÉODORE CATHALA (overseer) – FRANÇOIS-Sébastien-Siméon DINTROZ (nurse) – MARIE-JOSEPH CHEMINAL (servant) – GERMAIN-JOSEPH PETIT

Wikipedia, see also

Catholic Encyclopedia

The Holiness of the Church in the Nineteenth Century: Saintly Men and Women of Our Own Times

“Remembering the Catholic Martyrs of the Commune of Paris”

“Le père Captier a été fusillé à Paris”

“CATHOLIC MARTYRS WHOM EVEN THE CHURCH FORGETS”

“« À mort les calotins ! », le massacre des otages de la rue Haxo”

Hagiography Circle

Art & Architecture

Wikimedia Commons

The tomb of the Dominicans in the cemetery of Cachan