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Gabriel Longueville
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Feast: 18 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
18 March 1931
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Died
18 July 1976
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Beatified
27 April 2019
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Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
Gabriel Longueville was born at Étables, France, on 18 March 1931 and ordained on 29 June 1957. In 1968 he went to Latin America as a fidei donum priest, serving in Corrientes and, from 1971, in La Rioja, Argentina, as curate at Chamical.
Caught up in the persecution of those who worked with Bishop Enrique Angelelli, he was taken on 18 July 1976 and killed with the friar Carlos de Dios Murias.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A French missionary killed in Argentina for his work for justice.
Connected on this site
- Enrique Angelelli Blessed“Caught up in the persecution of those who worked with Bishop Enrique Angelelli, he was taken on 18 July 1976 and killed with the friar Carlos de Dios Murias.” — this site's research
Sources
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Gabriel Longueville
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 27 April 2019
- Wikidata Q13212955 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.