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Saint — Bl. Noël Pinot

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Bl. Noël Pinot
December 19, 1747 AD, Angers, Kingdom of France — February 21, 1794 AD, Angers, French Republic — guillotined in Mass vestments
French priest of the Vendée; martyr of the French Revolution
Cathedral of Saint-Maurice, Angers, France — memorial, France
Feast
February 21
Canonized
Beatified October 31, 1926 by Pope Pius XI
✠ MartyrGuillotined in his Mass vestments at Angers during the French Revolution, 1794 → The Martyrs
Life

Noël Pinot was born on December 19, 1747 at Angers. Ordained priest in 1771, Noël served as parish priest at the parish of Le Louroux-Béconnais in the Vendée region.

During the French Revolution, Noël refused the Constitutional Clergy Oath of 1790 — becoming a refractory-priest. Noël undertook the systematic underground Catholic ministry across the Vendée-Anjou region during the Vendée Wars (1793–1796) — in the continuing Catholic-royalist resistance to the revolutionary government.

Arrested in February 1794 while preparing to celebrate a secret Mass at Le Louroux, Noël was condemned to the guillotine at Angers.

On February 21, 1794, Noël was led to the guillotine at the Place du Ralliement at Angers — dressed in his full Mass vestments (the decision of the Revolutionary Tribunal to publicly shame the Catholic priesthood by executing him in the sacred vestments).

Noël pronounced the Preparatory Prayer of the Mass ('Introibo ad altare Dei') as he mounted the scaffold. Beatified October 31, 1926 by Pope Pius XI.

Miracles & Phenomena

  • The Mass-vestment execution

    Bl. Noël Pinot's execution at the guillotine on February 21, 1794 — dressed in his full Mass vestments — established the 'martyr-in-vestments' iconography of the French Revolution martyr tradition. Noël's last words 'Introibo ad altare Dei' at the scaffold established the Catholic Mass-devotion martyr tradition.

Relics
  • Body
    Memorial of Bl. Noël Pinot
    Cathedral of Saint-Maurice, Angers, France

    memorial veneration at the Cathedral of Saint-Maurice at Angers.

Iconography
  • Pinot at the guillotine in Mass vestments

    The late-18th-century French priest in full Mass vestments mounting the guillotine at the Place du Ralliement at Angers on February 21, 1794 — the iconography of Catholic French Revolution Mass-vestment martyr tradition.

Patronages
Catholic French Revolution martyr tradition (the Vendée martyrs)Diocese of Angers (Catholic)Catholic Mass-vestment martyr tradition
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