Joseph Boissel
French missionary
Who they were
The Martyrs of Laos are seventeen Catholic priests and professed religious as well as one lay young man venerated as martyrs killed in Laos between 1954 and 1970 of the First and Second Indochina Wars during a period of anti-religious sentiment under the Pathet Lao Theravada Buddhist-communist political movement.
Summary of the Wikipedia article Martyrs of Laos, which covers Joseph Boissel with others (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
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The cause
Joseph Boissel 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 the Martyrs of Laos.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - Martiri del Laos — Listed as "12. Padre Joseph Boissel", Oblate killed in an ambush in Laos; the 17 martyrs of Laos were beatified at Vientiane 11 December 2016.
- Wikidata Q25391929 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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