John Gabriel Perboyre


John Gabriel Perboyre

Statue of St. John Gabriel Perboyre
Martyr
Born(1802-01-06)6 January 1802
Le Puech, Montgesty, Lot, France
Died11 September 1840(1840-09-11) (aged 38)
Wuchang, Hubei, Imperial China
Venerated inCatholic Church
Beatified10 November 1889, Rome, Kingdom of Italy, by Pope Leo XIII
Canonized2 June 1996, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Major shrinein the Lazarist motherhouse of Paris
Feast11 September

John Gabriel Perboyre, CM (French: Jean-Gabriel Perboyre; 1802–1840) was a French priest of the Congregation of the Mission, who served as a missionary in China, where he suffered martyrdom. He was canonized in 1996 by Pope John Paul II.[1]

  1. ^ Miller, Charles Edward (2004). Mass on Sunday: And Other Ways of Being Catholic. Paulist Press. pp. 45–46. ISBN 0-8091-4237-6.

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