Siméon-François Berneux

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Bishop Berneux was tortured and then beheaded on March 7th, 1866.
Bishop Berneux was tortured and then beheaded on March 7th, 1866.[1]

Siméon-François Berneux (14 May 1814 at Château-du-Loir, died 8 March 1866 in Saenamteo, Korea) French Catholic missionary, who was assassinated in the anti-Christian purges in Korea in 1866. His death provoked the French intervention the same year.

His relics are in the Institut St. Philipp Neri in Berlin, Germany.

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