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Fr Henri Caffarel was a French JOC chaplain who later founded the Equipes de Notre Dame (Teams of Our Lady). He served as a peritus at Vatican II. Pope Leo XIV declared him venerable on 23 March 2026.
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Bernard Morizot was a French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service regime, where he continued to organise young workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. On 20 April 1945, he was shot on the evacuation route from the camp. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service system. He continued to organise young workers and was arrested and sent to Dachau and Mauthausen where he died on 25 April 1945. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Jean Perriolat was a French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service regime where he continued to organise workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to Mauthausen Concentration where he died. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service regime where he continued to organise clandestine YCW groups for which he was arrested and sent to Waltendstet-Hallendorf Disciplinary Camp where he died. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service system, where he continued to oragnise young workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to a series of concentration camps until his death on 27 March 1945. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service system, where he continued to organise young workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to a series of concentration camps. He died after 24 January 1945 and was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Italian-born French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service system, where he continued to organise workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to and eventual death in a concentration camp. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Canadian-born French priest, who was sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service regime, where he continued to serve workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to the Zoschen concentration camp, where he died. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Labour Service scheme, where he continued to organise Catholic Action groups, leading to his arrest and deportation to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp where he died. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service scheme, where he continued to organise workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to Gotha Concentration Camp where he died. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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André Parsy was a French YCW leader, who was sent to Germany on Compulsory Labour Service. There he helped organised YCW teams leading to his arrest after which he was sent to Spergau Disciplinary Camp then to Zoschen. He died in hospital on 26 December 1944 and was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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René Ponsin was a French YCW leader who was sent to Germany under the Compulsory Labour Service scheme. He started Catholic Action activities there and launched a Scout group, leading to his arrest.
He was sent to Buchenwald Concentation Camp in February 1944 and died of a gunshot wound while on an evacuation march. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Maurice Grandet was a French YCW leader, who was sent to Germany under the Compulsory Labour Service scheme. There he organised young workers leading to his arrest after which he was sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp where he died on 12 October 1944. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Bernard Lemaire was a French YCW leader, who was sent to Germany under the Compulsory Labour Service Scheme, where he organised young workers. He was eventually arrested and sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp where he died on 11 October 1944. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
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Letter to the author of a biography of martyred French YCW leader, Marcel Callo.
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Born in Vierzon (Cher) on 20 February, 1921, Jean Tinturier was a seminarian, who trained as a mill operator in order to be sent to Germany to work with the compulsory labour service (STO) workers. He recruited Blessed Marcel Callo to his apostolic activities and was himself sent to Gotha concentration camp where he died on 16 March 1945, three days before Marcel.
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Colbert Lebeau was a Scout and YCW leader from Châtellerault in western France. Sent to Germany under the compulsory labour service (STOà, he was arrested, imprisoned and sent to Zöschen concentration camp where he died on 3 January 1945.
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Jean Chavet was a French YCS leader from Lyon, who was sent as a forced labourer to Germany. He was later arrested and imprisoned for his Catholic Action activities and sent to Mauthausen, where he died on 24 April 1945.
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Jean Préhu was a Scout and JEC (YCS) leader, who was a prisoner of war, who helped organise other prisoners, leading to his deportation to Buchenwald.
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Jean Lépicier was a JOC leader from Angers, who was called up for STO (forced labour service) in Germany in 1943. Arrested for his jocist activities in March 1944, he died at the Buchenwald concentration camp on 3 March 1945.
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Pierre de Porcaro was a French YCW chaplain who went to work in Germany under the forced labour scheme and was martyred for his work, dying in the Dachau concentration camp.
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Founder of the Jeunesse Indépendante Catholique Féminine in France and its adult counterpart, Action Catholique Indépendante.
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French JOCF leader who died young
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A national fulltime worker for the JOCF in France, Thérèse later founded Claire Amitié, hostels for young women.
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Co-founder of the JOCF in France.
