Another lovely Dawn...

In the current long series of them; while I'll welcome the rains when they return next month (or in November) I love these cool, bright mornings (the chill remains once the raining begins but the morning sunshine disappears until May, with the occasional exception of course). It is a feria in the 1570 Missal but the feast of the Saint Stephen Confessor, King of Hungary, in later editions. 

After my first errands of the day, was here with only a few minutes to spare before Holy Mass at Saint-E. began. It is the Mass Cogitationes cordis eius because it is the First Friday with commemoration of the feast of the holy Bishops and Martyrs Jean-Marie du Lau d'Allemans, François Joseph de la Rouchefoucald, and Pierre Louis de la Rochefoucauld, along with 93 other clerics and religious, killed by the men-become-beasts of the Revolution in 1792. There is in fact a second cohort of Martyrs at Paris also celebrated today (they were raised to the altar on separate occasions, I'm presuming), and I'm sure M. l'Abbé Grodziski recalled all 117 of them-- the only name I heard him mention was that of Blessed Jean-Marie du Lau d'Allemans; I don't know whether both sets of martyrs have the same proper orations or not.

The website of the Association du Souvenir des Martyrs de Septembre 1792 lists the names with some identification; I had wondered if the Rochefoucaulds were brothers but perhaps not (B. François was de la Rochefoucauld Maumont and B. Pierre was de la Rochefoucauld Bayers), cousins, maybe; the Almanach tells me nothing (or at least I was able to read nothing of the tiny print in re Maumont and Bayers). I did notice, however, that Miss Mattie Elizabeth née Mitchell of Portland, Oregon, became the wife of François Duc de la Rochefoucauld (m 1925); she was the daughter of US Senator John Mitchell of this fair State whose career was, to say the least, colorful, including bigamy, desertion, fraud, who knows what else; a consummate parvenu. The Senate had begun the process of expelling him when he died. 

Parisiis in Gallia, passio beatorum martyrum Ioannis Mariae du Lau d'Allemans, Francisci Iosephi et Petri Ludovici de la Rochefoucauld, episcoporum, atque nonaginta et trium sociorum, clericorum vel religiosorum, qui, cum iusiurandum nefarie tempore gallicae perturbationis clericis impositum renuissent, in conventum Carmelitarum coacti in odium religionis pro Christo trucidati sunt. Quorum nomina: beati Vincentius Abraham, Andreas Angar, loannes Baptista Claudius Aubert, Franciscus Balmain, loannes Petrus Bangue, Ludovicus Franciscus Andreas Barret, losephus Becavin, Jacobus Julius Bonnaud, Joannes Antonius Hyacinthus Boucharene de Chaumeils, loannes Franciscus Bosquet, Claudius Cayx seu Dumas, loannes Charton de Millon, Claudius Chaudet, Nicolaus Clairet, Claudius Colin, Franciscus Dardan, Gulielmus Antonius Delfaut, Maturinus Victor Deruelle, Gabriel Desprez de Roche, Thomas Nicolaus Dubray, Thomas Renatus Dubuisson, Franciscus Dumasrambaud de Calandelle, Henricus Hippolytus Ermes, Armandus de Foucauld de Pontbriand, Jacobus Friteyre-Durve, Claudius Franciscus Gagnieres des Granges, Ludovicus Laurentius Gaultier, Joannes Goizet, Andreas Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Joannes Antonius Guilleminet, Joannes Baptista Jannin, Joannes Lacan, Petrus Landry, Claudius Antonius Radulphus de Laporte, Robertus le Bis, Maturinus Nicolaus Le Bous de Villeneuve de la Villecrohain, Oliverius Lefevre, Carolus Franciscus Legue, Jacobus Josephus Lejardinier Deslandes, Jacobus Joannes Lemeunier, Vincentius Josephus le Rousseau de Rosencoat, Franciscus Cesar Londiveau, Ludovicus Longuet, Jacobus Franciscus de Lubersac, Gaspar Claudius Maignien, Joannes Philippus Marchand, Ludovicus Mauduit, Franciscus Ludovicus Meallet de Fargues, Jacobus Alexander Menuret, Joannes Baptista Nativelle, Renatus Nativelle, Matthias Augustinus Nogier, Josephus Thomas Pazery de Thorame, Julius Honoratus Cyprianus Pazery de Thorame, Petrus Franciscus Pazery de Thorame, Petrus Ploquin, Renatus Nicolaus Poret, Julianus Poulain-Delaunay, Joannes Robertus Queneau, Franciscus Urbanus Salins de Niart, Joannes Henricus Ludovicus Samson, Joannes Antonius de Savine, Joannes Antonius Barnabas Seguin, Joannes Baptista Maria Tessier, Lupus Thomas seu Bonnotte, Franciscus Vareilhe-Duteil, Petrus Ludovicus Josephus Verrier; atque Ludovicus Barreau de la Touche, e Congregatione Sancti Mauri Ordinis Sancti Benedicti; Joannes Franciscus Burte, ex Ordine Fratrum Minorum; Apollinaris (Joannes Jacobus) Morel, ex Ordine Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum; Ambrosius Augustinus Chevreux et Renatus Julianus Massey, ex Ordine Sancti Benedicti; Bernardus Franciscus de Cucsac, Jacobus Gabriel Galais, Petrus Gauguin, Petrus Michael Guerin, Iacobus Stephanus Philippus Hourrier, Henricus Augustus Luzeau de la Mulonniere, loannes Baptista Michael Pontus, Petrus Nicolaus Psalmon et Claudius Rousseau, e Societate a Sancto Sulpitio; Carolus Ieremias Berauld du Perou, Franciscus Ludovicus Hebert et Franciscus Lefranc, e Societate Iesu et Marire, Urbanus Lefevre, e Societate Parisiensi Missionum ad exteras gentes; Severinus (Georgius) Girauld, e Tertio Ordine Regulari Sancti Francisci, omnes presbyteri; Ludovicus Alexius Matthias Boubert, Stephanus Franciscus Deusdedit de Ravinel et Iacobus Augustinus Robert de Lezardieres, diaconi; Salomon (Gulielmus Nicolaus Ludovicus) Leclercq, religiosus Scholarum Christianarum; Augustus Nezel, clericus, atque Carolus Regis Matthaeus de la Calmette (1792).  

*Ibidem, eodem die et anno, beati Petri Iacobi Mariae Vitalis, presbyteri, et viginti sociorum, martyrum, qui in eadem tempestate in abbatia Sancti Germani Pratensi in odium Ecclesiae interfecti sunt. Quorum nomina: beati Daniel Ludovicus Andre des Pommerayes, Ludovicus Remigius Benoist, Ludovicus Renatus Nicolaus Benoist, Antonius Carolus Octavianus du Bouzet, Ioannes Andreas Capeau, Armandus Chapt de Rastignac, Claudius Fontaine, Petrus Ludovicus Gervais, Sanctus Hure, Ioannes Ludovicus Guyard de Saint-Clair, Alexander Carolus Lenfant, Laurentius, Ludovicus le Danois, Thomas loannes Monsaint, Franciscus Josephus Pey, Ioannes Iosephus Rateau, Marcus Ludovicus Royer, loannes Petrus Simon, necnon Carolus Ludovicus Hurtrel, ex Ordine Minimorum, omnes presbyteri, et Ludovicus Beniamin Hurtrel, diaconus (1792).

Omnes sancti martyres, orate pro nobis! 

Omnes sancti martyres Galliae, orate pro nobis!

LDVM