Jean Louis Bonnard

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Jean Louis Bonnard (b. 1 March 1824 at Saint-Christôt-en-Jarret, Diocese of Lyon; beheaded 30 April 1852) was a French Roman Catholic missionary to Vietnam, one of the Vietnamese Martyrs, canonized in 1988[1].

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[edit] Life

After a collegiate course at Saint Jodard, he entered the seminary of Lyon. He left at the age of 22, to complete his theological studies at the Seminary of the Foreign Missions in Paris.

From Nantes, where he was ordained, he sailed for the missions of Western Tongking and reached there in May, 1850. In 1851 he was put in charge of two parishes there.

On 21 March, 1852, he was arrested and cast into prison. Sentence of death was pronounced against him and was executed immediately upon receipt of its confirmation by the king (30 April, 1852). His remains were thrown into the river, but recovered by Christians and sent by them to the Seminary of Foreign Missions.

[edit] References

  • Launay, Les cinguante-deux serviteurs de Dieu (Paris, 1895), 355-373.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Pope John Paul II: Beatifications and Canonizations

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This article incorporates text from the entry Ven. Jean Louis Bonnard in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.