Feb 29

Saint Augustus Chapdelaine

February 29th XIX century

Name
Augustus (Masculino)
Celebrate
August
Other saints
Other saints named Augustus
Dead
in Xilinxian, in current China
Celebration
February 29th
In the city of Xilinxian, in the Chinese province of Guangxi, saint Augustus Chapdelaine, priest of the society of foreign missions of Paris and martyr, who, arrested by soldiers along with many neophytes in this region that had become, received three hundred lashes, it was enclosed in a small hole and finally beheaded. Roman martyrology