Saint Francis Isidore Gagelin
- Memorial
- 17 October;
24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam
- Profile
- Studied at the Grand Seminary at Besancon.
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
- 1799 at Montperreaux, diocese of Besancon, France
- Died
- strangled to death in 1833 in Hue, Indo-China (modern Vietnam);
buried in Phukam, Vietnam;
relics later transferred to the Paris Seminary
- Beatified
- 1900
- Canonized
- 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II
- Additional Information
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For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
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