Augustin Schoeffler

Deceased Person

1822 – 1851

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Who was Augustin Schoeffler?

Augustin Schoeffler was a French saint and martyr in the Roman Catholic Church and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He was a priest in Lorraine who joined the Foreign Missions of Paris. He worked as a missionary to Indochina and was one of two French missionaries killed in northern Vietnam between 1847 and 1851. At the time, it was illegal to proselytize in Vietnam.

His feast day is May 1.

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Born
Nov 22, 1822
Mittelbronn
Nationality
  • France
Died
May 1, 1851
Sơn Tây

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on July 23, 2013

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