Saint Jean-Gabriel Perboyre CM
Vincentian Martyr
Jean-Gabriel Perboyre was born January 5, 1802, in Le Puech, a hamlet of the Montgesty parish in the Diocese of Cahors (France). He was one of eight children born to Marie Rigal and Pierre Perboyre. The family earned their livelihood farming with John-Gabriel growing up in a very Christian household.
Jacques Jean, his father's brother, was a priest of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians). He was on mission at the Vincentian Seminary at Montauban working in the formation of future priests. The Perboyre family held him in great esteem and at least seventeen cousins and nephews of the family passed under the hands of their Uncle James at the Seminary at Montauban.
Louis, the next in the family to Jean, was sent to this Seminary in 1816 and Jean Gabriel went to accompany his brother for the winter months as well as study. In the Spring, when Jean was due to return to the farm, with the direction of his uncle, Jean discerned that he wished to become a priest.
On December 15, 1818 Jean-Gabriel was received into the Congregation of the Mission at Montauban. He was ordained to the sacred priesthood, on September 23, 1825, by Bishop William Dubourg, of the Diocese of New Orleans (United States), in the Chapel of the Daughters of Charity at Rue du Bac in Paris.
After a time as Professor of Theology at the Seminary in Saint-Flour and then as Director of a boarding school in the same town, he was called to Paris in 1832 to be Assistant Director of Novices at the Internal Seminary of the Congregation of the Mission. However, he wanted to go to the Missions in China.
Father John-Gabriel's brother died on a mission to China and he asked to replace him. In March of 1835, he sailed for China. On August 29, 1835 he arrived in Macao, the gateway to the Missions in China. After working in many apostolic activities at Ho-Nan and in spite of dangers and persecutions, he was betrayed and imprisoned in September of 1839.
A widespread persecution of Christians began in 1839, the same year England had attacked China. On September 16, 1839, Father John-Gabriel was denounced to the authorities by one of his catechumens. He was arrested and tried. He was martyred, after long and severe torturing, on September 11, 1840, at Ou-Tchang-Fou, in Wuchang (now a Wuchang District of Wuhan, China). After being tortured, he was tied to a cross and strangled with a rope.
Twenty years later, his remains were transported to the Motherhouse Chapel of the Vincentian Fathers in Paris, where they now rest opposite of his co-brother missionary, Saint François Regis Clet, also martyred in China.
Father John-Gabriel was declared Venerable by Pope Gregory XVI in July of 1843 he was beatified by Pope Leo XIII on November 10, 1889, and he was canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 2, 1996. His memorial is celebrated on September 11.
Vincentian Martyr
Jean-Gabriel Perboyre was born January 5, 1802, in Le Puech, a hamlet of the Montgesty parish in the Diocese of Cahors (France). He was one of eight children born to Marie Rigal and Pierre Perboyre. The family earned their livelihood farming with John-Gabriel growing up in a very Christian household.
Jacques Jean, his father's brother, was a priest of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians). He was on mission at the Vincentian Seminary at Montauban working in the formation of future priests. The Perboyre family held him in great esteem and at least seventeen cousins and nephews of the family passed under the hands of their Uncle James at the Seminary at Montauban.
Louis, the next in the family to Jean, was sent to this Seminary in 1816 and Jean Gabriel went to accompany his brother for the winter months as well as study. In the Spring, when Jean was due to return to the farm, with the direction of his uncle, Jean discerned that he wished to become a priest.
On December 15, 1818 Jean-Gabriel was received into the Congregation of the Mission at Montauban. He was ordained to the sacred priesthood, on September 23, 1825, by Bishop William Dubourg, of the Diocese of New Orleans (United States), in the Chapel of the Daughters of Charity at Rue du Bac in Paris.
After a time as Professor of Theology at the Seminary in Saint-Flour and then as Director of a boarding school in the same town, he was called to Paris in 1832 to be Assistant Director of Novices at the Internal Seminary of the Congregation of the Mission. However, he wanted to go to the Missions in China.
Father John-Gabriel's brother died on a mission to China and he asked to replace him. In March of 1835, he sailed for China. On August 29, 1835 he arrived in Macao, the gateway to the Missions in China. After working in many apostolic activities at Ho-Nan and in spite of dangers and persecutions, he was betrayed and imprisoned in September of 1839.
A widespread persecution of Christians began in 1839, the same year England had attacked China. On September 16, 1839, Father John-Gabriel was denounced to the authorities by one of his catechumens. He was arrested and tried. He was martyred, after long and severe torturing, on September 11, 1840, at Ou-Tchang-Fou, in Wuchang (now a Wuchang District of Wuhan, China). After being tortured, he was tied to a cross and strangled with a rope.
Twenty years later, his remains were transported to the Motherhouse Chapel of the Vincentian Fathers in Paris, where they now rest opposite of his co-brother missionary, Saint François Regis Clet, also martyred in China.
Father John-Gabriel was declared Venerable by Pope Gregory XVI in July of 1843 he was beatified by Pope Leo XIII on November 10, 1889, and he was canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 2, 1996. His memorial is celebrated on September 11.
Saint Jean-Gabriel Perboyre CM
Vincentian Martyr
Jean-Gabriel Perboyre was born January 5, 1802, in Le Puech, a hamlet of the Montgesty parish in the Diocese of Cahors (France). He was one of eight children born to Marie Rigal and Pierre Perboyre. The family earned their livelihood farming with John-Gabriel growing up in a very Christian household.
Jacques Jean, his father's brother, was a priest of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians). He was on mission at the Vincentian Seminary at Montauban working in the formation of future priests. The Perboyre family held him in great esteem and at least seventeen cousins and nephews of the family passed under the hands of their Uncle James at the Seminary at Montauban.
Louis, the next in the family to Jean, was sent to this Seminary in 1816 and Jean Gabriel went to accompany his brother for the winter months as well as study. In the Spring, when Jean was due to return to the farm, with the direction of his uncle, Jean discerned that he wished to become a priest.
On December 15, 1818 Jean-Gabriel was received into the Congregation of the Mission at Montauban. He was ordained to the sacred priesthood, on September 23, 1825, by Bishop William Dubourg, of the Diocese of New Orleans (United States), in the Chapel of the Daughters of Charity at Rue du Bac in Paris.
After a time as Professor of Theology at the Seminary in Saint-Flour and then as Director of a boarding school in the same town, he was called to Paris in 1832 to be Assistant Director of Novices at the Internal Seminary of the Congregation of the Mission. However, he wanted to go to the Missions in China.
Father John-Gabriel's brother died on a mission to China and he asked to replace him. In March of 1835, he sailed for China. On August 29, 1835 he arrived in Macao, the gateway to the Missions in China. After working in many apostolic activities at Ho-Nan and in spite of dangers and persecutions, he was betrayed and imprisoned in September of 1839.
A widespread persecution of Christians began in 1839, the same year England had attacked China. On September 16, 1839, Father John-Gabriel was denounced to the authorities by one of his catechumens. He was arrested and tried. He was martyred, after long and severe torturing, on September 11, 1840, at Ou-Tchang-Fou, in Wuchang (now a Wuchang District of Wuhan, China). After being tortured, he was tied to a cross and strangled with a rope.
Twenty years later, his remains were transported to the Motherhouse Chapel of the Vincentian Fathers in Paris, where they now rest opposite of his co-brother missionary, Saint François Regis Clet, also martyred in China.
Father John-Gabriel was declared Venerable by Pope Gregory XVI in July of 1843 he was beatified by Pope Leo XIII on November 10, 1889, and he was canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 2, 1996. His memorial is celebrated on September 11.
Vincentian Martyr
Jean-Gabriel Perboyre was born January 5, 1802, in Le Puech, a hamlet of the Montgesty parish in the Diocese of Cahors (France). He was one of eight children born to Marie Rigal and Pierre Perboyre. The family earned their livelihood farming with John-Gabriel growing up in a very Christian household.
Jacques Jean, his father's brother, was a priest of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians). He was on mission at the Vincentian Seminary at Montauban working in the formation of future priests. The Perboyre family held him in great esteem and at least seventeen cousins and nephews of the family passed under the hands of their Uncle James at the Seminary at Montauban.
Louis, the next in the family to Jean, was sent to this Seminary in 1816 and Jean Gabriel went to accompany his brother for the winter months as well as study. In the Spring, when Jean was due to return to the farm, with the direction of his uncle, Jean discerned that he wished to become a priest.
On December 15, 1818 Jean-Gabriel was received into the Congregation of the Mission at Montauban. He was ordained to the sacred priesthood, on September 23, 1825, by Bishop William Dubourg, of the Diocese of New Orleans (United States), in the Chapel of the Daughters of Charity at Rue du Bac in Paris.
After a time as Professor of Theology at the Seminary in Saint-Flour and then as Director of a boarding school in the same town, he was called to Paris in 1832 to be Assistant Director of Novices at the Internal Seminary of the Congregation of the Mission. However, he wanted to go to the Missions in China.
Father John-Gabriel's brother died on a mission to China and he asked to replace him. In March of 1835, he sailed for China. On August 29, 1835 he arrived in Macao, the gateway to the Missions in China. After working in many apostolic activities at Ho-Nan and in spite of dangers and persecutions, he was betrayed and imprisoned in September of 1839.
A widespread persecution of Christians began in 1839, the same year England had attacked China. On September 16, 1839, Father John-Gabriel was denounced to the authorities by one of his catechumens. He was arrested and tried. He was martyred, after long and severe torturing, on September 11, 1840, at Ou-Tchang-Fou, in Wuchang (now a Wuchang District of Wuhan, China). After being tortured, he was tied to a cross and strangled with a rope.
Twenty years later, his remains were transported to the Motherhouse Chapel of the Vincentian Fathers in Paris, where they now rest opposite of his co-brother missionary, Saint François Regis Clet, also martyred in China.
Father John-Gabriel was declared Venerable by Pope Gregory XVI in July of 1843 he was beatified by Pope Leo XIII on November 10, 1889, and he was canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 2, 1996. His memorial is celebrated on September 11.
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