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About St. André Grasset
April 5, 1758 – September 2, 1792 · Feast September 2 · Priest / Martyr
First Canadian-born saint, a Sulpician priest of Montreal who was studying in France when the Revolution broke out. After refusing to take the Civil Constitution of the Clergy oath, he was arrested and massacred at the Carmelite convent in Paris on September 2, 1792, alongside St. Salomon Leclercq and 191 other clergy and religious. He is venerated as the first martyr of Canadian Catholicism.
St. André Grasset is the patron saint of Canadian-born Martyrs, Sulpicians and The Diocese of Montreal.
