[1] Leclercq was killed in 1792 after he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new French Revolutionary government almost two weeks before the kingdom was dissolved.

Brother Solomon stayed on at their property in Paris, dressed in ordinary clothes and looking after the house.

[1] It was in this period of his life, around 1791, that he and the priest Clorivièm initiated plans to establish a new religious congregation – it was never to materialize.

Leclercq was arrested on 15 August 1792 and was imprisoned with priests and other religious at a Carmelite convent in Paris.

The formal introduction of the cause received the approval of Pope Benedict XV on 26 January 1916 in a move that labelled Leclercq as a Servant of God.

The 2007 occurrence regarded prima facie as a miracle, such as could lead to his eventual Canonization as a saint was investigated in the diocese of its origin in Venezuela from 19 January 2011 to 29 September 2011 and was then forwarded to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome for further investigation.