Alexandre Lanfant

Anne-Alexander-Charles-Marie Lanfant was born September 9, 1726, in Lyon and baptized the next day in the church of Saint-Martin d'Ainay.

In 1762, after the suppression of the order in Paris, he served as a priest in Lorraine under the protection of the duke, Stanisław Leszczyński.

[3] The duke died shortly thereafter and Lanfant stayed at the imperial court in Vienna, serving as preacher to Maria Theresa Habsburg.

A renowned orator, greatly devoted to the Sacred Heart, Lanfant encouraged the distribution of a pamphlet calling for forty days of prayer and penance which ended with a solemn prayer of consecration to the Sacred Heart in June 1790.

Although a "constitutional" priest obtained his release from the Abbey of Saint-Germaine-des-Pres, he was recaptured and sent to the Prison de l'Abbaye, where he was killed on September 5 by the revolutionary mob.