
Biography
Jean-Pierre Néel, born on October 18, 1832, in the hamlet of Soleymieux, in the commune of Sainte-Catherine-sous-Riverie (Rhône), and died on February 18, 1862, in the province of Guizhou (then Kouy-tchéou) in China, was a Catholic missionary priest. He was beatified on May 2, 1909, by Pope Pius X and canonized on October 1, 2000, by Pope John Paul II, among 120 Christians who died in China between the 17th and 20th centuries.
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