Blessed Mathurin Nicolas La Ville Crohain

Blessed Mathurin Nicolas La Ville Crohain

Mathurin Nicolas La Ville Crohain

Blessed

  • Death: 09/02/1792
  • Nationality (place of birth): France

Mathurin Le Bous de Villeneuve de la Villecrohain (1731-1792) was one of the Jesuits who were killed when the French Revolution turned into a rabid anti-Catholic persecution. Father Le Bous de Villeneuve was chaplain to the Benedictine Sisters on rue Bellechasse in Paris.

For more details see the description under Blessed James Bonnaud and 22 Paris Martyrs

Originally Collected and edited by: Tom Rochford, SJ