ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 29th of September WELCOME! SAINT RENE GOUPIL, MARTYR Saint Rene Goupil [René Goupil] was born on May 13 , 1608 in Saint Martin in Anjou, France, the son of Hypolite Goupil and of Luce Provost. His baptism took place on May 15 , 1608. It is noted that Saint Rene formally studied surgery - rather than merely being one of the barber-surgeons of his time. On March 26 , 1639, he entered the Society of Jesus in Paris, as a lay assistant (donné) rather than as a Jesuit , because of his progressing deafness - a note preserved in the archives of the Jesuits of Chantilly, near Paris, informs us that he had to discontinue his noviciate for this reason: " Renatus Goupil a tirocinio Parisiensi exclusus erat, quia surdaster ." The following year he offered himself to the Society for missionary work in Quebec, promising to obey the Jesuit superior, to receive no remuneration and live a celiba...