Blessed John Gaspard Cratz

Also known as

• Johann Kaspar Kratz
• Joanes Kaspar Kratz

Memorial

• 12 January

Profile

Spent several years as a young adult travelling around Europe. Employee of the Dutch East India Company in 1727. Joined the Jesuits at Macao in 1730. Missionary to the kingdom of Tonkin (modern Vietnam). Ordained in 1734. Arrested in March 1736. Tortured and martyred for his work.

Born

• 15 September 1698 at Golzheim, Düren, Germany

Died

• beheaded in 1737 in Tonkin (modern Vietnam)

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Heiligen 3s
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed John Gaspard Cratz“. Saints.SQPN.com. 12 January 2013. Web. 20 June 2013. <>