Saint Rene Goupil OVAL
$49.95
$49.95
- CHAIN IS NOT INCLUDED
- Available in Solid 14K Yellow Gold, White Gold, & Sterling Silver
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All Religious Medals are Customizable. We can change the spelling, your language, names etc, ex: change "Pray for Us" to "Pray For Me". Just let us know in "special instructions"Ren Goupil (May 15, 1608 September 23, 1642) was a French missionary and one of the first North American martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church. He was baptized in St-Martin-du-Bois near Angers, France in 1608 on the 15th of May. He volunteered to work with the Jesuits in the hospitals of Quebec. In 1642, he travelled to the Huron missions in New York with Father Isaac Jogues. He was captured by the Iroquois as a French Military Spy and tortured. After teaching the native children the sign of the cross, he was killed by a tomahawk blow to the head near the current site of Auriesville, New York. He was canonized on 29 June 1930 by Pope Pius XI along with seven other Canadian Martyrs. He is the patron saint of anesthetists. Fordham University has a student dormitory named after Rene Goupil at its Rose Hill Campus in the Bronx, New York.
| SKU | 71493 |
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| Weight | 0.3 |
| Metal | All Metals |
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