SAINT
saint-christian-de-cherge
A saint of the Catholic Church
biography
Charles-Marie Christian de Chergé, O.C.S.O, was a French Cistercian, one of the seven monks kidnapped from the Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibhirine, Algeria, and believed to have been later killed by Islamists in 1996. He was beatified with eighteen others, the Martyrs of Algeria, on December 9, 2018.
feast Day
05-08
birth Date
1937-01-17
death Date
1996-05-21
canonization Status
beatified
feast Month
5
feast Day Of Month
8

