Noël Tenaud
Priest of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, martyr in Laos
Who they were
Noël Tenaud, a priest of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, was fifty-seven years old and was evangelising the province of Savannakhet with a catechist; a Protestant pastor advised the two to take refuge in the town as he had done, but they chose instead to go on towards the villages of catechumens, and caught between two lines of fire they were seized and killed on 27 April 1961.
He was beatified on 11 December 2016 by Pope Francis, among the martyrs of Laos.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints names him among the martyrs of Laos beatified on 11 December 2016.
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 - martiri-del-laos
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 11 December 2016
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.