Saint John-Louis Bonnard
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- Memorial
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1 May
24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam
- Profile
- Studied at seminaries in Aix and Lyons.
Ordained in 1848.
Missionary priest with the Paris Society of Foreign Missions, assigned to Hong Kong.
Re-assigned to Annam, Indo-China in May 1850, working in the districts of Kebang and Ketrinh.
Arrested at Boasujan in 1852 for the crime of being a missionary.
Imprisoned and tried at Nadinh.
Martyred with Saint Augustine Schoffler.
- Born
- 1 March 1824 at Saint Christot-en-Jarret, Loire, France
- Died
- beheaded on 1 May 1852 at Tonkin, Indo-China (modern Vietnam);
body thrown into the river, but immediately recovered by local Christians;
interred in the college of Vinhtri;
his blood-covered garments, links of his chains, his hair and his beard were kept by heathen soldiers and sold to Christians
- Name Meaning
- God is gracious; gift of God (John)
- Venerated
- 2 July 1899
- Beatified
- 27 May 1900 by Pope Leo XIII
- Canonized
- 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II
- Additional Information
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For All The Saints
The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Brunson
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