Blessed Joseph Boissel
1909–1969 · Contemporary · Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
Biography
Joseph Boissel, born on December 20, 1909, near Pontmain, in the hamlet of La Tiolais in the commune of Le Loroux in the Archdiocese of Rennes, Brittany, and murdered on July 5, 1969, near Hat Lêt, Laos, was a French and Breton Catholic missionary considered a blessed and martyr by the Catholic Church. He was one of the seventeen martyrs of Laos, which included ten Frenchmen, six Laotians, and one Italian.
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