Blessed Christian de Chergé
Feast day: May 8
1937 – 1996
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.
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