Saint Augustine Schoffler

Also known as

• Augustus Schoffler
• Agostino Schoeffler

Memorial

• 1 May
• 24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam

Profile

Studied in the seminary at Pont a Mousson and the Grand Seminary of Nancy. Priest. Member of the Paris Society of Foreign Missions in 1846. Missionary to Viet Nam beginning in 1848, preaching first in Hong Kong, and then in the Vietnamese province of Sudoa, then in the Christian area of Bono. There he was betrayed to soldiers who, as part of a persecutions of Emperor Tu-Duc, were hunting Christians. One of the Martyrs of Vietnam.

Born

• 22 November 1822 at Mittelbronn, Moselle, France

Died

• beheaded on 1 May 1852 at Son-tai, Tonkin, Vietnam
• his head was thrown into the Song-Ka River, his body buried in a nearby village

Venerated

• 2 July 1899 by Pope Leo XIII (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 27 May 1900 by Pope Leo XIII

Canonized

• 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Institute of Saint Clement I Pope and Martyr
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Kirken i Norge
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Augustine Schoffler“. Saints.SQPN.com. 30 April 2013. Web. 25 May 2013. <>