Pierre Chanel (1803-1841), Catholic priest, missionary and martyr. He was declared a saint and the first martyr of Oceania (the South Pacific). Pierre Louis Marie Chanel was born on July 12 1803 in Cuet, near Belley, France. His piety and intelligence attracted the attention of the local priest, and he was put into Church-sponsored education. He followed this with seminary training and was ordained priest in 1827. Among his first assignments was a run-down parish, … Wikipedia
War between rival tribes and the practice of cannibalism had reduced its population to a few thousands when Chanel landed on its shores. www.newadvent.org/cathen/11769a.htm
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St. Peter Chanel was born in France in 1802. He was ordained a priest in 1827, and engaged in the parochial ministry for a few years; but the reading of letters of missionaries in far-away lands inflamed his heart with zeal, and he resolved to devote his www.catholicculture.org/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?d...
