Augustin Schoeffler Saint
Augustin Schoeffler (1822–1851) was a French saint and martyr in the Roman 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. At the time, it was illegal to proselytize in Vietnam.His feast day is May 1 (May 2 locally in France).
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| beatified date | May 07, 1900 |
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| canonized date | June 19, 1988 |
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