Blessed Albertin-Marie Maisonade
Also known as
- Albertino Maria Maisonade
Profile
Cistercian chorister monk who fled from the persecutions of the French Revolution to the Congregation of Casamari in Veroli, Italy, making his profession on 20 November 1793. Known for his devotion to Eucharistic adoration and the Mass.
When anti–Christian French revolutionary soldiers broke into the abbey and scattered reserved Eucharistic Hosts in mockery of the Real Presence, Albertin and some brother monks gathered Them up and started a period of Adoration in the abbey infirmary. The soldiers forced their way into the infirmary and murdered the monks. Martyr.
Born
- Bordeaux, Gironde, France
- stabbed and shot twice on the night of 13 May 1799 in Casamari Abbey, Veroli, Frosinone, Italy
- relics enshrined in the abbey church in 1951
- 17 April 2021 by Pope Francis
- the beatification recognition was celebrated in the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari, Veroli, Italy
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Albertin-Marie Maisonade“. CatholicSaints.Info. 17 May 2024. Web. 11 June 2024. <>