Pierre Dumoulin-Borie
Saint Pierre Borie | |
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John-Paul II | |
Feast | November 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 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.
References
- 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