M. Gruget, parish priest of the Trinity, in whose parish was Carmel, wrote on October 14 in the attic where he was hidden :“At noon, we began to accommodate the guillotine. We suspected that it was for Mr. Langellerie, that we had taken on Saturday near the Brothers. We were not wrong. We had judged him in the morning. He refused to answer all the impertinent questions his tormentors asked him. He simply said that he had done all the good he could have done and that he would die content. Indeed, at 4 in the evening he came with a cheerful and satisfied step instead of torture to receive the crown of martyrdom that God had in store for him. It is to be noted that he ended his days and made his sacrifice on the eve of the feast of Saint Thérèse, foundress of the Carmelites, of which he was the chaplain, and at a time when he used to expose the Blessed Sacrament for the first vespers of the feast, the day before the feast of Saint Mainboeuf, bishop of Angers, and near the place where his ashes have rested for so long “.
The Catholic Church has endured over more than 20 centuries because of Christ and the love that He inspires in people like Father Jacques Laigneau de Langellerie.
Very good. The thought that comes to mind is that now with “Pope” Francis Catholics will never again have to endure martyrdom as Church teaching will always be aligned with the State as we see in Communist China.