Carthusian Saints (PDF) - Charterhouse of the Transfiguration

After his Charterhouse of Bourg-Fontaine was suppressed by the
Revolution, Dom Claude Beguignot (born 1736) withdrew to Rouen.
April 1793 he was arrested and put on one of the boats. During their
ordeal Dom Claude was the one the sick turned to for help. A priest
who survived witnessed as follows to the monk’s manifest holiness:
“The very view of this man inspired the love of mortification. You
never tired of hearing him speak of God. He did it so worthily and
with such unction.” Dom Claude died July 16, 1794.
Dom Lazarus Tiersot (born 1739), professed and Vicar (1) of the
Charterhouse of our Lady of Fontenay, withdrew to the town of Avallon
at the suppression of his monastery. He was arrested in April
1793, and put on one of the boats. “He impressed the other priests as a
Saint”, says one who survived. He passed away August 10, 1794,
having predicted his death.
The Order celebrates Dom Claude and Dom Lazarus on August
5, together with other Martyrs of the Order, who are Saints or Blesseds.
(2)
We commemorate several other Carthusians killed because of
their loyalty to the faith and the Church:
§ other Carthusians, victims of the French Revolution,
not yet beatified;
§ the Carthusians of Prague, killed by Hussites in 1421;
§ Dom Justus van Schoonhoven, sacristan of the Charterhouse
of Delft (The Netherlands), martyred by Calvinists,
in 1572;
§ the monks of the Charterhouse of Roermond (The
Netherlands), also martyred by Calvinists, in 1572;
§ the Prior and a donate brother of Montalegre, killed in
Barcelona during the Spanish civil war, in 1936;
§ the twelve Carthusians of Farneta, near the city of
Lucca, Italy, shot by a contingent of SS Nazis because
they had given refuge to Jews and Italian partisans on
the ‘wanted list’ of the German army, in 1944.
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