Born 15 of November 1745, in Boulogne- sur-Mer, France, Leclercq entered the novitiate at the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Rouen on 25 March 1767. He took his vows in 1769 and in September 1770 was sent to teach at Maréville.
He was killed in 1792 after he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new French Revolutionary government almost two weeks before the kingdom was dissolved. He was killed in the garden of a Carmelite convent around a fortnight after he had been arrested and imprisoned in Paris. He was the first Brother of the Christian Schools to be martyred, and the first to be beatified. His canonization was celebrated on 16 October 2016; his feast day is September 2.
He was killed in 1792 after he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new French Revolutionary government almost two weeks before the kingdom was dissolved. He was killed in the garden of a Carmelite convent around a fortnight after he had been arrested and imprisoned in Paris. He was the first Brother of the Christian Schools to be martyred, and the first to be beatified. His canonization was celebrated on 16 October 2016; his feast day is September 2.
Born 15 of November 1745, in Boulogne- sur-Mer, France, Leclercq entered the novitiate at the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Rouen on 25 March 1767. He took his vows in 1769 and in September 1770 was sent to teach at Maréville.
He was killed in 1792 after he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new French Revolutionary government almost two weeks before the kingdom was dissolved. He was killed in the garden of a Carmelite convent around a fortnight after he had been arrested and imprisoned in Paris. He was the first Brother of the Christian Schools to be martyred, and the first to be beatified. His canonization was celebrated on 16 October 2016; his feast day is September 2.
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