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Notre-Dame to Host Collective Beatification of French WWII Martyrs on Saturday

The ceremony honors members of the clandestine Mission Saint‑Paul whose deaths in Nazi camps have been recognized by the Vatican as martyrdom.

Une affiche réalisée pour le diocèse de Paris, à l’occasion de la béatification de 50 martyrs français ce samedi.
L’archevêque de Paris, Mgr Laurent Ulrich, célébrant une messe à Notre-Dame de Paris, le 23 juillet 2025.

Overview

  • The Mass is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on December 13 at Notre-Dame, roughly one year after the cathedral’s reopening.
  • Organizers expect about 2,500 attendees in the nave, including approximately 1,500 relatives of the martyrs.
  • Public access will be restricted for the day and the liturgy will be broadcast live in full on Catholic channel KTO.
  • The honorees supported French STO workers in Germany through the Mission Saint‑Paul and many were arrested after a late‑1943 Gestapo order, dying in 1944–1945 at camps including Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Dachau and Neuengamme.
  • Reports differ on key details, with La Croix and Le Parisien citing 50 to be beatified and Le Figaro reporting 51, and accounts naming either Cardinal Jean‑Claude Hollerich or Archbishop Laurent Ulrich to preside.