page_title: Salomone Leclercq
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Salomone Leclercq / Life
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Acte de baptême de Nicolas Leclercq le 15 novembre 1745 en l'église Saint-Nicolas à Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais)
context_page_description: Salomone Leclercq – born Guillaume-Nicolas-Louis Leclercq – was a French Roman Catholic professed religious who was killed during the French Revolution for his refusal to swear an oath of allegiance to the new government. Leclercq assumed the religious name of "Salomone" after he was admitted as a professed member of the De La Salle Brothers.
  Leclercq was killed in 1792 after he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new French government almost two weeks before the kingdom was dissolved. He was killed in the garden of a Carmelite convent around a fortnight after he had been arrested and imprisoned in Paris.
  His beatification received the approval of Pope Pius XI who beatified Leclercq and his 190 companions on 17 October 1926 while Pope Francis approved his canonization in 2016. A date for sanctification was fixed at a gathering of cardinals on 20 June 2016 and the canonization was celebrated on 16 October 2016.
context_section_description: Guillaume-Nicolas-Louis Leclercq was born in the Kingdom of France on 15 November 1745.
  He entered the novitiate with the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools – or De La Salle Brothers – on 25 March 1767 and assumed the religious name of "Salomone". He served as a teacher and later as the master of novices. Leclercq also was made procurator in 1777 of Maréville and in 1778 made provincial. In 1790 during the French Revolution the institute was designated as being illegal due to the members who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new French government following the toppling of King Louis XVI. He too refused to take the oath and despite being monitored penned letters to his relatives. His last letter was dated on 15 August 1792. It was around this time in 1791 he and the priest Clorivièm initiated plans to establish a new religious congregation – it was never to materialize.
  Leclercq was arrested on 15 August 1792 and was imprisoned with priests and other religious at a Carmelite convent in Paris. Revolutionaries armed with swords killed them all on 2 September 1792 in the garden of the convent.
caption: Baptismal record.
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