René Goupil
French Jesuit lay brother, missionary and martyr (1608-1642) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the 17th-century Jesuit missionary. For the original 5th-century Saint-René, see Saint Renatus.
René Goupil, S.J. (15 May 1608 – 29 September 1642), was a French Jesuit lay missionary (French: donné, "given" or "one who offers himself") who became a lay brother of the Society of Jesus shortly before his death. He was the first of the eight 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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Born | 15 May 1608 Saint-Martin-du-Bois, Anjou, Kingdom of France |
Died | 29 September 1642(1642-09-29) (aged 34) Ossernenon, New France |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church (Canada, United States) |
Beatified | 21 June 1925[citation needed], Vatican City by Pope Pius XI |
Canonized | 29 June 1930, Vatican City, by Pope Pius XI |
Major shrine | National Shrine of the North American Martyrs, Auriesville, New York, US[1] |
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