Jean-Martin Moye
French missionary
Feast: 4 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Jean-Martin Moye, ordained at Metz in 1754, founded schools for country children and in 1767 the Sisters of Divine Providence, despite opposition.
In 1769 he went as a missionary to China. Later, in exile at Trier during the Revolution, he nursed typhoid victims with his Sisters, caught the disease and died, a martyr of charity, on 4 May 1793.
The miracles
The Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest who taught the poor, served in China and died nursing the sick.
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.
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - Blessed John Martin Moye
- Wikidata Q2008176 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Jean-Martin Moye (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.