Johannes Gabriel Perboyre

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Saint Johannes Gabriel Perboyre (French Jean-Gabriel Perboyre , born January 6, 1802 in Puech , France , † September 11, 1840 in China) was a French religious priest and martyr .

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Johannes Gabriel entered the Lazarist order in 1820 and was ordained a priest in 1825. In 1830 he was appointed novice master of Paris. At his own request, Johannes Gabriel worked as a missionary in the Chinese provinces of Honan and Hupe from 1835 . The General Superior of the Order, Father Dominique Salhorgne († 1836), personally adopted him. Because of his Christian ministry, he was arrested in China in 1839 and had to endure terrible torture and torture in various prisons in the period that followed. In 1840 he was finally hanged on a cross and strangled. His body has been resting in the order's headquarters of the Lazarists in Paris since 1860.

Perboyre was founded in 1889 by Pope Leo XIII. Beatified and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1996 .

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Individual evidence

^ Johann Peter Stollenwerk: Life of the Venerable Martyr Johann Gabriel Perboyre, Priest of the Congregation of Mission , Part 1, p. 105, Regensburg, 1863 (digital scan)

personal data
SURNAME	Perboyre, Johannes Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Perboyre, Jean-Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French religious priest, martyr and saint of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH	January 6, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Puech , France
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1840
Place of death	China

[1] Johann Peter Stollenwerk: Life of the Venerable Martyr Johann Gabriel Perboyre, Priest of the Congregation of Mission , Part 1, p. 105, Regensburg, 1863 (digital scan)