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Blessed Placide Viel
Blessed Placide Viel

Blessed Placide Viel

Also known as: Eulalie Victoire Jacqueline Viel; Eulalie-Victoire Viel; Placida Viel

Blessed
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

4-Mar

Born

26 September 1815 at Quettehou, Normandy, France as Eulalie Victoire Jacqueline Viel

Died

4 March 1877 at Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, France of natural causes

Beatified

6 May 1951 by Pope Pius XII

Venerated

9 February 1941 by Pope Pius XII

Biography

Blessed Placide Viel, born into a large farm family in Normandy as one of eight children, entered the religious life at the age of eighteen


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