René Goupil
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 382 years ago |
Date of birth | May 15,1608 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Saint-Martin-du-Bois |
Segre-en-Anjou Bleu | |
France | |
Date of died | September 29,1642 |
Died | Auriesville |
New York | |
United States | |
Beatified | June 21, 1925 |
Major shrine | Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine |
National Shrine of the North American Martyrs | |
Auriesville | |
New York | |
United States | |
Feast | Canada |
United States | |
Canonized | Vatican City |
Pope Pius XI | |
Patronag | anesthesiologists |
Canon | Vatican City |
Nationality | Canadian |
French | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1710215 |
René Goupil Life story
René Goupil, S.J., was a French Jesuit lay missionary who became a lay brother of the Society of Jesus shortly before his death. He was the first of the eight North American Martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church to receive the crown of martyrdom and the first canonized Catholic martyr in North America.