Honorific Prefix: | Blessed |
Guillaume Repin | |
Titles: | Martyr |
Birth Date: | 26 August 1709 |
Birth Place: | Thouarcé, Maine-et-Loire, France |
Death Place: | Angers, France |
Feast Day: | 2 January |
Venerated In: | Catholic Church |
Beatified Date: | 19 February 1984 |
Beatified By: | Pope John Paul II |
Guillaume Repin (26 August 1709 - 2 January 1794) was a French priest and martyr.[1] He was beatified on 19 February 1984 by Pope John Paul II.
Repin was born in Thouarcé, Maine-et-Loire, France on 26 August 1709. He entered the seminary in Angers at nineteen years of age and was ordained a priest.
During the French Revolution, on June 17, 1792, he was arrested and kept at a prison workshop. He was released by The Vendee on 17 June 1793. He was arrested again on December 24, 1793, in Mauges and taken to prison to Chalonnes-sur-Loire. He was sentenced to the guillotine and executed by the order of the Revolutionary Committee of Angers.
Repin's spiritual writings were approved by theologians on 27 July 1951.[2] He was beatified on February 19, 1984 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter's Square, Vatican.[3] His feast is celebrated on 2 January.