He burned the cathedral of Nantes, kills the priest who had defended him

PARIS – Scattered throughout the missions around the world, little more than six hundred of Montfortian priests remain today. Olivier Mayor, 6o years old, born in Besançon, was one of them. He had traveled extensively, from Africa to Rome – where he had lived from 2005 to 2011. But yesterday morning they found him in a pool of blood in his community of Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, in the Vendee (one of the most Catholic regions in France), in the monastery where he had decided to return and of which he was appointed Superior. .