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Jean-Charles Cornay

French missionary and martyr

Died when: 28 years 205 days (342 months)
Star Sign: Pisces

 

Jean-Charles Cornay

Jean-Charles Cornay, (27 February 1809 – 20 September 1837) was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who was martyred in Vietnam.He was executed in Ha Tay, Tonkin, now Vietnam, during the persecutions of Emperor Minh M?ng.

A town in France still carries his name.Cornay was beatified on 27 May 1900, and canonized by Pope John Paul II on 19 June 1988.


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