Jean-Charles Cornay

Deceased Person

1809 – 1837

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Who was Jean-Charles Cornay?

Saint Jean-Charles Cornay, M.E.P., was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who was martyred in Vietnam. He was executed in Ha Tay, Tonkin, now Vietnam, during the persecutions of Emperor Minh Mạng.

A town in France still carries his name.

Cornay was beatified on 27 May 1900, and canonized by Pope John Paul II on 19 June 1988.

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Born
Feb 27, 1809
Loudun
Died
Sep 20, 1837
Sơn Tây

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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