Paris Foreign Missions Society

The Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris ( Order code: MEP), German Society of the Paris Mission Seminary is a Catholic society of apostolic life based in Paris. It was founded in the years 1658/63 of Monseigneur François Pallu and Pierre Lambert de la Motte Monseigneur to the proselytizing of Indochina to attract and train clergy and laity. Since its inception, the community has dispatched more than 4,500 missionaries to Asia. Today, it still counts 379 members.

The parent company of the Paris Missionary Seminary was established in 1663 in the Rue du Bac, where it is still located. A first chapel ( chapelle de la Sainte- Famille ) replaced from 1683 by the architect Lambert by today's Chapelle St. Francois -Xavier. The seminar was, apart from the located in the rear of the garden building in which a Salle des Martyrs -called hall of the missionaries remembers those who died for their faith, renewed in 1736. It was canceled after the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1792, sold in 1796 and 1805 re-established.

Address: 128 rue du Bac, 75007 Paris

Known priests of the Paris Mission India were the missionaries Jean Antoine Dubois (1766-1848) and Louis Savinien Dupuis (1806-1874), the 1844 first native sister northern India founded in Pondicherry.

Martyrs of the Paris Mission

This list is incomplete.

  • Laurent Imbert (1796-1839); beheaded (Korea ); canonized on May 6, 1984
  • François -Isidore Gagelin (1799-1833); strangles ( Cochin ); canonized on June 19, 1988
  • François Jaccard (1799-1838); strangles ( Tonkin ); canonized on June 19, 1988
  • Étienne -Théodore Cuenot (1802-1861); canonized on June 19, 1988
  • Joseph Marchand (1803-1835); tortured to death ( Hue, Annam ); canonized on June 19, 1988
  • Jacques Chastan (1803-1839); beheaded (Korea ); canonized on May 6, 1984
  • Pierre Dumoulin - Borie (1808-1838); beheaded ( Tonkin ); canonized on June 19, 1988
  • Jean -Charles Corney (1809-1837); beheaded ( Tonkin ); canonized on June 19, 1988
  • Siméon -François Berneux (1814-1866); beheaded (Korea ); canonized on May 6, 1984
  • Pierre -François Néron (1818-1860); canonized on June 19, 1988
  • Antoine Daveluy (1818-1866); beheaded (Korea ); canonized on May 6, 1984
  • Augustin Schoeffler (1822-1851); beheaded ( Tonkin ); canonized on June 19, 1988
  • Jean -Louis Bonnard (1824-1852); beheaded ( Tonkin ); canonized on June 19, 1988
  • Théophane Vénard (1829-1861); canonized on June 19, 1988
  • Martin- Luc Huin (1836-1866); beheaded (Korea ); canonized on May 6, 1984
  • Pierre AUMAITRE (1837-1866); beheaded (Korea ); canonized on May 6, 1984

Superiors General

  • Raymond Rossignol (1992-1998)
  • Jean -Baptiste Etcharren (1998-2010)
  • Georges Colomb ( since 9 July 2010)
Catholicism Rue du Bac, Paris Cochinchina Annam (French protectorate)
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