Feast May 1
Saint Augustin Schoeffler
Martyr, patron of Metz Seminary · Feast May 1
Biography
Augustin Schoeffler was a French saint and martyr in the 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.
Feast day
May 1
Patronage
- Metz Seminary
Birth date
1822-11-22
Death date
1851-05-01
Canonization status
Canonized
Canonization date
19 June 1988
Canonized by
Pope John Paul II
Feast month
5
Wikidata qid
Q2043896
Feast day of month
1