Augustin Schoeffer

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Augustin Schoeffer (d. 1851), a French saint and martyr in the Roman Catholic Church. He was a priest in Lorraine who joined the Foreign Missions of Paris. He performed as a missionary to Indo-China and was killed for his faith in Tonkin in 1851.

His feast day is May 1 (May 2 locally in France).