Félicité Pricet

A laywoman, originally from Châtillon-sur-Sèvre, Deux-Sèvres, in Poitou, she was a devout Catholic and follower of the rebels of the French Revolution.

Historian Jean-Clément Martin has reported on her trial; she was executed because she went to services conducted by Catholic priests supporting the rebellion and because she had an "unbearable devotion" to her faith.

She was executed in Avrillé (Maine-et-Loire), near Angers on 18 January 1794 (30 Pluviôse year 2) with other nuns and laypeople, including Monique Pichery, Carole Lucas and Victoire Gusteau.

[1][2] Félicité Pricet was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 February 1984, at the same time as 99 of the estimated 2,000 people shot at Avrillé or guillotined in the Angers Rally Square between 1793 and 1794.

"[3][4] Between April and January 1794, during the Vendée wars, nearly 2,000 people were shot in Avrillé and buried in 12 graves by the troops commanded by General Louis Marie Turreau.