Godfried Coart
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St. Godfried of Mervel, O.F.M. | |
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| Religious, priest and martyr | |
| Born | Melveren |
| Died | 9 July 1572 Brielle, Spanish Netherlands |
| Beatified | 14 November 1675 by Pope Clement X |
| Canonized | 29 june 1865 by Pope Pius IX |
| Major shrine | Brielle, South Holland, Netherlands |
| Feast | 9 july |
Godfried Coart (Melveren, 1512 - Den Briel, July 9, 1572) was a Franciscan monk and one of the martyrs of Gorcum.
Synonyms
Godfrey of Mervel. Mervel is an old name for Melveren, near Sint-Truiden (Belgium). Godefridus Mervellanus, name in Latin Godefroid Mervellan, name in French.
Life
Godfried Coart was a descendant of the noble Coart family in the Principality of Liège. He grew up at the castle of Melveren. After his ordination as a priest, he worked as a sexton in the Franciscan convention in Gorinchem. He printed pictures of the saints that he distributed. He also painted.
After his martyrdom (1572), the Coart family developed a worship for him. Since then, the family father has always been given the first name Godfried. The street where the castle of Melveren stands has been renamed Sint-Godfriedstraat.
Authority
Content in this edit is translated from the existing Dutch Wikipedia article at nl:Godfried Coart; see its history for attribution.
See also
- 16th-century births
- 1572 deaths
- Dutch Roman Catholic saints
- Eighty Years' War (1566–1609)
- History of South Holland
- Deaths by hanging
- 16th-century Christian saints
- 16th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
- Martyred Roman Catholic priests
- Franciscan martyrs
- Franciscan saints
- Canonized Roman Catholic religious brothers
- Canonizations by Pope Pius XII
- 1572 in Europe
- Gorinchem