St. François-Isidore Gagelin

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Born: 10 May 1799 in Montperreux, Doubs, France 

Died: strangled to death on 17 October 1833 in Bãi Dâu, Saigon, Vietnam, buried in Phukam, Vietnam, relics later transferred to the seminary in Paris, France 

Canonized: 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II 

Feast day: October 17

Studied at the Grand Seminary at Besancon, France. Member of the Paris Foreign Mission Society in 1817. Missionary to Vietnam in 1822. Priest. When the government began a crackdown on Christians, Francis turned himself over to the authorities of Bongson, and worked with other prisoners in the short time he had left. Martyr.