SAINT
saint-augustin-schoeffler
A saint of the Catholic Church
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
05-01
patronages
- 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
feast Day Of Month
1

