Saint François-Isidore Gagelin

Also known as

• Francis Isidore Gagelin
• Frans Isidor Gagelin

Memorial

• 17 October
• 24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam

Profile

Studied at the Grand Seminary at Besancon, France. Member of the Paris Foreign Mission Society in 1817. Missionary to Vietnam in 1822. Priest. When the government began a crackdown on Christians, Francis turned himself over to the authorities of Bongson, and worked with other prisoners in the short time he had left. One of the Martyrs of Vietnam.

Born

• 10 May 1799 in Montperreux, Doubs, France

Died

• strangled to death on 17 October 1833 in Bãi Dâu, Saigon, Vietnam
• buried in Phukam, Vietnam
• relics later transferred to the seminary in Paris, France

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
• Catholic Online
• For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
• Katolsk i Norge
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Francois-Isidore Gagelin”. Saints.SQPN.com. 12 August 2010. Web. 25 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-francois-isidore-gagelin/>