Augustin Schoeffler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French martyr and saint
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Place of Birth: Mittelbronn, Grand Est, France
About Augustin Schoeffler
- Augustin Schoeffler (1822–1851) was a French saint and martyr in the Roman Catholic Church and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.
- He was a priest in Lorraine who joined the Foreign Missions of Paris.
- He worked as a missionary to Indochina and was one of two French missionaries killed in northern Vietnam between 1847 and 1851.
- At the time, it was illegal to proselytize in Vietnam. His feast day is May 1 (May 2 locally in France).
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