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Louis Beaulieu

French missionary, martyr, saint of the Catholic Church (1840–1866)

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Feast: 20 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1840
Died
1866
Beatified
not on record
Canonised
6 May 1984
unverified

Who they were

In the place called Sai-Nam-Hte, also in Korea, the holy martyrs Simeon Berneux, bishop, Just de Bretenières, Louis Beaulieu and Pierre-Henri Dorie, priests of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, who, having answered their persecutors with confidence that they had come to Korea to save souls in the name of Christ, died by beheading.

The miracles

The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 7 March as a priest of the Paris Foreign Missions Society beheaded in Korea for having come to save souls in the name of Christ.

Connected on this site

  • Just de Bretenières Saint
    “In the place called Sai-Nam-Hte, also in Korea, the holy martyrs Simeon Berneux, bishop, Just de Bretenières, Louis Beaulieu and Pierre-Henri Dorie, priests of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, who, having answered their persecutors with confidence that they had come to Korea to save souls in the name of Christ,…” — this site's research
  • Pierre-Henri Dorie Saint
    “In the place called Sai-Nam-Hte, also in Korea, the holy martyrs Simeon Berneux, bishop, Just de Bretenières, Louis Beaulieu and Pierre-Henri Dorie, priests of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, who, having answered their persecutors with confidence that they had come to Korea to save souls in the name of Christ,…” — this site's research
Sources

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