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Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse
French Roman Catholic saint
Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse, MEP was a French Catholic prelate who served as Vicar Apostolic of Se-Ciouen from 1801 to 1815. He was member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Martyr Saints of China
Catholic martyrs from several centuries canonized by John Paul II in 2000
The Martyr Saints of China, or Augustine Zhao Rong and his Companions, are 120 saints of the Catholic Church. The 87 Chinese Catholics and 33 Western missionaries from the mid-17th century to 1930 were martyred because of their ministry and, in some cases, for their refusal to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)