- Pierre Borie
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name=Saint Pierre Borie
birth_date=1808
death_date=1838
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caption=Martyrdom of Saint Pierre Borie, 24 November 1838,Tonkin ,Vietnam .
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canonized_date=19 June 1988
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issues=Pierre Dumoulin-Borie (
February 20 ,1808 –November 24 ,1838 ) was a French Catholic missionary priest and a member of theParis Foreign Missions Society . He is a Catholic saint, canonized in 1988 along with otherVietnamese Martyrs .Life
He was the sixth of the twelve children of Guillaume Borie and his wife Rose Labrunie. The Borie family was a middle-class family of
Beynat in Bas-Limousin. Family members had different backgrounds. Pierre Dumoulin-Borie had as a godfather his uncle Pierre Borie, a priest refractory during the Revolution, and thencuré ofSionac ; but an uncle, Jean Borie, was an administrator ofCorrèze , deputy in the Legislative Parliament and Convention, and one of those who voted for the death ofLouis XVI .Pierre's godfather undertook the first rudiments of his education before he left for the Seminary of
Servières in 1824. He was ordained priest inBayeux onNovember 21 ,1830 , Pierre was sent overseas, reachingMacao onJuly 18 ,1831 .He was brought to
Saigon by Chinese smugglers, evading the ban on proselytizing. He joined the South Tonkin mission, but was met with persecution. He persevered in fulfilling his pastoral task in the area which was entrusted to him. Pierre was arrested in 1838, and he learned in prison that he had been namedtitular bishop of Acanthus. Shortly after this, onNovember 24 ,1838 , he was given a death sentence, which was carried out that day.Exhumed secretly eleven months later, the body of Saint Pierre rests today in The Martyr's Room, at the
Paris Foreign Missions Society in Paris.References
*CathEncy|id=02686c|title=Pierre-Rose-Ursule-Dumoulin Borie
*fr icon [http://128.mepasie.net/saint-pierre-dumoulin-borie.fr-fr.4.106.content.htm Saint Pierre Dumoulin-Borie] at Missions Etrangères de Paris
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