Pierre Dumoulin-Borie

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Saint Pierre Borie
John-Paul II
FeastNovember 24

Pierre-Rose-Ursule Dumoulin-Borie (20 February 1808 – 24 November 1838) was a

Catholic missionary priest and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He is a Catholic saint, canonized in 1988 along with other Vietnamese Martyrs
.

Life

Pierre Borie (1808-1838).

Pierre Borie was the sixth of the twelve children of Guillaume Borie and his wife Rose Labrunie. The Borie family was a middle-class family of

curé of Sionac; but an uncle, Jean Borie, was an administrator of Corrèze, deputy in the Legislative Parliament and Convention, and one of those who voted for the death of Louis XVI
.

Pierre's godfather undertook the first rudiments of his education before he left for the Seminary of

Macao
on 18 July 1831.

He was brought to

Acanthus
on 30 January 1836. Shortly after this, on 24 November 1838, he was given a death sentence, which was carried out that day.

Exhumed secretly eleven months later, the body of Saint Pierre rests today in The Martyr's Room, at the Paris Foreign Missions Society in Paris.

Remains of Pierre Borie, at the Paris Foreign Missions Society.
Salle des Martyrs at the Paris Foreign Missions Society. The ladder-like apparatus in the middle is the cangue that was worn by Pierre Borie in captivity.

References

  • Public Domain Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Pierre-Rose-Ursule-Dumoulin Borie". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  • (in French) Saint Pierre Dumoulin-Borie at Missions Étrangères de Paris

External links