Robert Guérin du Rocher was born in Repas in 1736. He was the younger brother of Petrus and like his brother became a

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priest. He did

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work in the Middle east and eventually settled as a

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, before being expelled by the

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. On returning to France he bacmae spiritual director for the Sisters of the Visitation in Paris. On 2 September 1792 he was one of the priests, along with his older brother Petrus killed by a mob in the

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. 134 years later he and his fellow

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were

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in October 1926''Martyrologium Romanum'', 2004, pp. 492–493

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