André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, fils

André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (3 April 1758 – 2 September 1792) was a Canadian-born French Catholic priest who was martyred in Paris during the French Revolution. In 1926, he became the first Canadian-born person to be beatified.

Life He was born in Montreal to an immigrant from Montpellier, France, André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur senior (1720-1794), who had come to Canada (then known as New France) to be the secretary to the Governor General of New France. In 1764, at the age of six, he accompanied his father, who had decided to return to France following the Treaty of Paris in 1763. They lived in Calais. He studied at the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris, then entered the priesthood in Sens, being ordained there in 1783. and he was among the 188 bishops, priests, monks, nuns and laypeople beatified as the Holy September Martyrs on 17 October 1926, being the first Canadian-born person to be beatified.

Memorials Collège André-Grasset, a post-secondary institution in Montreal was founded by the Sulpician order in 1927.

The altar of the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in Notre Dame Basilica, Montreal, is dedicated to the martyrs of the revolution. A stained-glass window bearing Grasset's image is also in the Basilica.