Jean Wauthier
Feast: 16 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Jean Wauthier was a priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Laos, who became the apostle and defender of the Kmhmu' refugees abandoned by all.
He was executed on 16 December 1967, aged 35, on the orders of corrupt soldiers, and was called by the people 'martyr of justice and charity'.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The defender of abandoned refugees in Laos.
The cause
Jean Wauthier has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Oblates of Mary Immaculate: the cause of Jean Wauthier.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Jean Wauthier
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 11 December 2016
- Wikidata Q25391739 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.