Benedict Joseph Labre [SEP] canonization status
Benedict Joseph Labre
Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, T.O.S.F., () (25 March 1748 – 16 April 1783), was a French mendicant, Franciscan tertiary, and Catholic saint.
Life.
Labre was born in 1748 in the village of Amettes, near Arras, in the former Province of Artois in the north of France. He was the eldest of fifteen children of a prosperous shopkeeper, Jean-Baptiste Labre, and his wife, Anne Grandsire.
Labre had an uncle, a parish priest, living
- 29 June 1865
- Martyrs of Gorkum
- 29 June 1867
- Germaine Cousin
- Leonardo Casanova
- Maria Francesca Gallo
- Josaphat Kuntsevych
- Paolo Danei
- Nicholas Pieck
- Pedro de Arbués
Modern canonization Pontificate of Leo XIII (19).
- 8 December 1881
- Benedict Joseph Labre
- Clare of Montefalco
- Giovanni Battista de Rossi
- Lawrence of Brindisi (1559 – 1619)
- 15 January 1888
- Alphonsus Rodriguez, S.J.
- John Berchmans