Saint Jean-Théophane Vénard M.E.P. (born at Saint-Loup-sur-Thouet Diocese of Poitiers France November 21 1829; died in Tonkin Vietnam February 2 1861) was aFrench Catholic missionary to Indo-China. He was a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He was beatified in company with thirty-three other Catholic martyrs most of whom were natives of Tonkin Cochin-China or China. Pope John Paul II canonized him with nineteen other martyrs in 1988.
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