Pierre-Rose-Ursule Dumoulin-Borie (20 February 1808 – 24 November 1838) was a
French Catholic
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missionary priest and a member of the
Paris Foreign Missions Society
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. He is a Catholic
saint
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,
canonized
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in 1988 along with other
Vietnamese Martyrs
The Vietnamese Martyrs ( Vietnamese: ''Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam''; French: ''Martyrs du Viêt Nam''), also known as the Martyrs of Annam, Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, Martyrs of Indochina, or Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (Anrê ...
.
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
curé
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of
Sionac; but an uncle, Jean Borie, was an administrator of
Corrèze, deputy in the Legislative Parliament and Convention, and one of those who voted for the death of
Louis XVI
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.
Pierre's godfather undertook the first rudiments of his education before he left for the Seminary of
Servières in 1824. He was ordained a priest in
Bayeux
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Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England. It is also known as the first major town ...
on 21 November 1830, Pierre was sent overseas, reaching
Macao
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on 18 July 1831.
He was brought to
Saigon
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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
titular bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
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
Paris Foreign Missions Society
The Society of Foreign Missions of Paris (french: Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris, short M.E.P.) is a Roman Catholic missionary organization. It is not a religious institute, but an organization of secular priests and lay persons d ...
in Paris.
References
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Saint Pierre Dumoulin-Borieat 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
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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