Saint José Melchór García-Sampedro Suárez

Saint José Melchór García-Sampedro Suárez

1821–1858 · Modern · Dominican Order

Feast day: July 28

Biography

Melchior Garcia Sampedro Suarez, also known as Saint Melchior of Quirós and in Spanish as José María Díaz Sanjurjo (born in Quirós, Asturias, Kingdom of Spain, on April 28, 1821 – executed in Nam Dinh, Tonkin, on July 28, 1858), was a 19th-century Spanish Dominican friar and Catholic missionary who became a bishop and is considered a martyr of Tonkin (present-day Vietnam) by the Catholic Church.

Translated from French Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · machine translation

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