Saint Rene Goupil
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- Also known as
- Renatus Goupil
- Memorial
- 19 October
- Profile
- Entered the Jesuit noviate in Paris, but his deafness prevented his joining the order.
He studied medicine, and in 1639 offered to work as a medic for the Jesuit missionaries in America.
Missionary to the Hurons, working as a donné, a layman who worked without pay.
Worked in a hospital in Quebec, Canada in 1640.
Assistant to Saint Isaac Jogues on his missionary travels.
Captured and tortured by Iroquois, enemies of the Huron, for making the sign of the cross over a child's head.
While they were in captivity, Father Isaac received Rene into the Jesuits as a religious brother.
First North American martyr.
His death by tomahawk in the head led to his patronage of people who work with or receive anasthesia.
- Born
- 1606 at Anjou, France
- Died
- tomahawked in the head following two months of torture in 1642
- Beatified
- 21 June 1925
- Canonized
- 29 June 1930 by Pope Pius XI
- Patronage
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anesthetists;
anesthesiologists
- Additional Information
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Catholic Online
Catholic Online
New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Dictionary of Patron Saints' Names
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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