Christian de Chergé
Catholic monk (1937-1996)
Feast: 8 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Charles-Marie Christian de Chergé, O.C.S.O (Colmar, 18 January 1937 – 21 May 1996), 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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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q331080 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Christian de Chergé (CC BY-SA)
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