Nov 14

Saint Stephen Theodore Cuénot

November 14th XIX century

In the fortress of Binh Dinh in Conchinchina, saint Stephen Theodore Cuénot, Bishop of the society of foreign missions of Paris and martyr, that after twenty-five years of apostolic work, during the fierce persecution under Emperor Tu Duc was thrown in a barn of elephants, where he died exhausted from suffering (1861). Roman martyrology