Saint Augustine Schoffler
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Also known as
- Augustus Schoffler
- 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 general persecution, were hunting Christians. One of the Martyrs of Vietnam.
Born
- 22 November 1822 at Mittelbronn, Moselle, France
- 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
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
- Kirken i Norge
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
