⛪ Saint of the Day : February 21
⛪ Other Names :
* Natalis Pinot * Natale Pinot
⛪ Born :
19 December 1747 at Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
⛪ Died :
Guillotined on 21 February 1794 at Angers,
Maine-et-Loire, France.
He wore his Mass vestments to execution,
and died reciting the opening words of the Mass.
⛪ Venerated :
3 June 1926 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)
⛪ Beatified :
21 October 1926 by Pope Pius XI
NoΓ«l Pinot (born in Angers, December 9, 1747 - died in Angers, 21 February 1794) was a refractory priest who was guillotined during the War in the VendΓ©e. He was beatified by the Catholic Church and considered a martyr.
Born the last of sixteen children to a humble weaver, he lost his father when he was eight years old. He entered the seminary in Angers. He was ordained a priest on 22 December 1770.
He was first appointed vicar in Bousse in 1772 and then chaplain at Angers in August 1781. In September 1789 he became pastor of Le Louroux-BΓ©connais commune.
During the French Revolution, he refused to take the oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy unlike his superior, Mathurin Garanger who took the oath on Sunday, 23 January 1791 and was later a member of the Petite Γglise. He was accused by the revolutionary municipality of "engaging in ecclesiastical activities to oppose the law". On Sunday 27 February He was brought before the court. Denounced, he was arrested on 5 March and sentenced to banishment by the District Court. He hid in Beaupreau. Returning to Louroux in 1793, during the war of Vendee, he went into hiding after the failure of the royalist insurgents against Nantes.
He was arrested on the night of 8 February 1794 during a clandestine Mass he celebrated at the farm of Milandrie at Louroux- BΓ©connais, where he was hiding. He was taken to Angers, appeared before the Commission militaire rΓ©volutionnaire and was guillotined on 3 VentΓ΄se An II of the French Republican Calendar on the Place du Ralliement in Angers. He was executed wearing the vestments / liturgical clothes he was wearing at the time of his arrest. He mounted the scaffold reciting the first prayers of the mass Introibo ad altare Dei.
A statue at the Cathedral of Angers represents the first step of climbing the "altar of God".
On 26 August 1864 Guillaume Angebault, bishop of Angers recommended Father Brouillet to the commission to "proceed with the canonical investigation into the life and virtues of the priest".
He was beatified by Pope Pius XI on October 1926. Ninety-nine Martyrs d'Angers were beatified by Pope Jon Paul II on 19 February 1984.
Blessed Pinot is venerated on 21 February.
Source : Wikipedia