About Ambroise Chevreux
Lived 1728 – 1792 (aged 63). Ambroise Chevreux was a French presbyter and politician.
Ambroise Chevreux, O.S.B. (13 February 1728, in Orléans – 2 September 1792, in Paris) was a French Benedictine abbot. He was the last superior general of the Congregation of Saint Maur.
He was elected to serve as a deputy of the clergy to the Estates General of 1789. Along with hundreds of fellow clergy, he was arrested at the end of August 1792 by armed revolutionaries. He and most of his fellow prisoners were murdered in the course of the September Massacres.
Chevreux is among the 190 victims of that event--almost entirely clergy--declared martyrs for the faith and beatified in 1930 by Pope Pius XI.
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Who was Ambroise Chevreux?
French martyr
When was Ambroise Chevreux born?
Ambroise Chevreux was born on 13 December 1728 in Orléans.
When did Ambroise Chevreux die?
Ambroise Chevreux died on 2 September 1792 in Paris.
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Ambroise Chevreux was a presbyter and politician.
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Ambroise Chevreux was French.
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