St. Augustus Chapdelaine
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Feastday: February 27
Birth: 1814
Death: 1856
Canonized: Pope John Paul II
Birth: 1814
Death: 1856
Canonized: Pope John Paul II
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Martyr of China. Born in 1814, in France, Augustus was ordained to the priesthood in the Paris Society of the Foreign Missions. He was sent to China after a brief period of parish work, going to Kwang-si. There he was taken prisoner during the persecution of the Church and was put to death brutally. He was beatified in 1900.
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