Jean-Baptiste Malo
Feast: 28 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Jean-Baptiste Malo was a priest of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who had been a missionary in China.
Aged 55, he died of exhaustion and ill-treatment on 28 March 1954, beyond the Vietnamese border, on the road to the prison camps. He is one of the martyrs of Laos.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A missionary who died on the road to the prison camps.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Jean-Baptiste Malo
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 11 December 2016
- Wikidata Q25391754 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.