René Goupil S.J. (15 May 1608 – 29 September 1642) 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 North American Martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church to receive the crown of martyrdom and the first canonized Catholic martyr in North America.
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