deaths
February 2, 1861
Théophane Vénard, French Catholic missionary (born 1829)
Théophane Vénard
Jean-Théophane Vénard was a French Catholic missionary to Indo-China. He was a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He was beatified in company with thirty-three other Catholic martyrs, most of whom were natives of Tonkin, Cochin-China, or China. Pope John Paul II canonized him, with nineteen other martyrs, in 1988.
February 2
February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 332 days remain until the end of the year.