John Gabriel Perboyre

John Gabriel Perboyre (French: Jean -Gabriel Perboyre, born January 6, 1802 in Puech, France, † September 11, 1840 in China) was a French religious priests and martyrs. He is a saint in the Catholic Church.

John Gabriel stepped into the Lazaristenorden 1820 and was ordained a priest in 1825. In 1830 he was appointed novice master of Paris. At his own request, John Gabriel was in 1835 as a missionary in the Chinese provinces of Honan and horn worked. Because of his Christian ministry, He was arrested in 1839 and had terrible torment and torture in several prisons in the aftermath endure. In 1840 he was finally hanged on a cross and strangled. His body has been dormant since 1860 in the Order headquarters of the Vincentians in Paris.

John Gabriel Perboyre was founded in 1889 by Pope Leo XIII. beatified and canonized in 1996 by Pope John Paul II.