Pierre-Rose-Ursule Dumoulin-Borie (20 February 1808 – 24 November 1838) was a French

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missionary priest and a member of the

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. He is a Catholic saint,

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in 1988 along with other

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Life

Pierre Borie 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 then

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of Sionac; but an uncle, Jean Borie, was an administrator of

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, deputy in the Legislative Parliament and Convention, and one of those who voted for the death of

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. Pierre's godfather undertook the first rudiments of his education before he left for the Seminary of

Servières Servières (; oc, Cervièira) is a former commune in the Lozère department in southern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Monts-de-Randon.Bayeux on 21 November 1830, Pierre was sent overseas, reaching

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on 18 July 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 named

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of Acanthus on 30 January 1836. Shortly after this, on 24 November 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

in Paris.

References

*
Saint Pierre Dumoulin-Borie
at Missions Étrangères de Paris

External links

Archives of the Paris Foreign Missions Society
* https://web.archive.org/web/20141226035930/http://www.gpnt.net/diendan/archive/index.php/t-1167.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Borie, Pierre 1808 births 1838 deaths 1838 in Vietnam French Roman Catholic missionaries French Roman Catholic saints Vietnamese Roman Catholic saints Paris Foreign Missions Society missionaries 19th-century Roman Catholic martyrs 19th-century Christian saints French people executed abroad 19th-century executions by Vietnam People from Corrèze Executed people from Limousin People executed by Vietnam French expatriates in Vietnam