Blessed André Grasset
Blessed André Grasset (1758 – 1792)
He was born in Montréal on 3 April 1758, the son of a prosperous merchant and former secretary to two governors of Montréal. The family returned to France in 1764.
He was ordained priest in 1783 and became a canon and cathedral treasurer at Sens just as the French Revolution was beginning.
In the face of persecution he took shelter with the Eudist fathers in Paris. He was executed in the massacre of the Hôtel des Carmes on 2 September 1792, together with almost 200 other priests, religious and laymen.
He was beatified by Pope Pius XI on 17 October 1926.