André Grasset

[4] Grasset sought refuge with the Eudist Fathers in the Maison des Tourettes, but was captured in 1792 and imprisoned in the former Carmelite convent now known as the Carmes Prison.

On 2 September 1792, along with 3 bishops and 92 other priests also held at the prison,[4] they were once again asked to sign the Civil Constitution but all replied that their conscience forbade them to do so.

All 96 clergy were then killed by the guards, using bayonets, swords and spikes, and their bodies disposed of in ditches and drains around Paris.

André Grasset was declared Venerable by Pope Pius XI under a Decree of Martyrdom on 1 October 1926,[5] 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.

The altar of the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in Notre Dame Basilica, Montreal, is dedicated to the martyrs of the revolution.