Blessed Christian Chessel

1958–1994 · Contemporary · White Fathers

Biography

Christian Chessel, born in Digne-les-Bains on October 27, 1958, and murdered in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, on December 27, 1994, was a French Catholic priest and White Father. He was one of the nineteen martyrs of the Algerian Catholic Church between 1994 and 1996, the most well-known of whom were the monks of Tibhirine. He was beatified on December 8, 2018.

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