The archbishop of Rouen is prepared to initiate a canonization procedure within the prescribed period of five years. It states that it “carefully preserved evidence about the Father Jacques.”

Making a miracle, a condition generally imposed by the Church for canonization, will not be necessary:

“To the martyrs, their loyalty before death takes the place of miracles.”

For Bishop Lebrun, the abbot, killed in his church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, at the foot of the altar, can legitimately be considered a martyr.