Saint Jean-Charles Cornay M.E.P. (27 February 1809 – 20 September 1837) was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who was martyred in Vietnam. He was executed in Ha Tay Tonkin now Vietnam during the persecutions of Emperor Minh Mạng.A town in France still carries his name.Cornay was beatified on 27 May 1900 and canonized by Pope John Paul II on 19 June 1988.
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