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ST PAUL CHEN CHANGPIN, SEMINARIAN AND MARTYR - 29 JULY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY

Saints celebrated on the 29th of July

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SAINT PAUL CHEN CHANGPIN, SEMINARIAN AND MARTYR 

Paul Chen Changpin was a Chinese Catholic martyr saint, a student preparing for the priesthood. He was born April 11, 1838 in Sintchen (former province of Guizhou, Kouy-tcheou). He was martyred by beheading in Qingyang on July 29, 1861. Having become a seminarian, he was condemned and executed. His remains were translated in 1920 and lie in the Cathedral Notre-Dame of Paris, in the chapel of the Sainte-Enfance (north aisle).

THE LORD'S CALL

Saint Paul was born into a non-Christian family. In 1853 he entered the minor seminary where he began to learn Latin. He was baptised and confirmed on Christmas Day 1853. He made his first communion a few months later. 

In 1857, his father told him to leave the seminary and his studies, but he refused. His vocation was firm. In 1860, he entered the major seminary of Tsingay - in the spring of 1861.

MARTYRDOM

He was arrested for being a Catholic Christian seminarian and beheaded on July 29 with another seminarian, Joseph Tchang, as well as a lay farmer, Jean-Baptiste Lo and the seminary cook, the widow Martha Wang, who had brought food to the three prisoners. The seminary was then set on fire by the soldiers.

HIS CANONISATION

He was beatified in 1909 by Pope Pius X, and canonised on October 1 of the Holy Year 2000 (feast of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus , patroness of the missions) by John Paul II in the group of 120 Martyrs of China.

Source: Wikipedia France,

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tchen

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr Paul confessed the faith, may experience his goodness as he intercedes for us with you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

➡️ Martyr Saints of China 






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