Augustin Schoeffler
Saint Augustin Schoeffler | |
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Saint Augustin Schoeffler. | |
| Martyr | |
| Born | 22 November 1822 Mittelbronn, France |
| Died | 1 May 1851 (aged 28) Son Tay, Vietnam |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 7 May 1900 by Pope Leo XIII |
| Canonized | 19 June 1988, Rome, Italy by John-Paul II |
| Major shrine | Mittelbronn, France |
| Feast | 1 May (2 May locally in France) |
| Patronage | Metz Seminary |
Augustin Schoeffler (22 November 1822–1 May 1851) 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. At the time, it was illegal to proselytise in Vietnam.