René Goupil [SEP] religious order
René Goupil
René Goupil, S.J. (15 May 1608 – 29 September 1642), was a French Jesuit lay missionary (in French "donné", "given", or "one who offers himself") who became a lay brother of the Society of Jesus shortly before his death. He was the first of the eight North American Martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church to receive the crown of martyrdom and the first canonized Catholic martyr in North America.
Life.
Goupil was baptized in St-Martin-
St. John of God
- Martin de Porres, Order of Preachers
- André Bessette, C.S.C., Canadian founder of St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal
- René Goupil, S.J. missionary and martyr/saint
- Albert Chmielowski, Polish founder of a congregation of brothers and another of religious sisters of the Third Order Regular of Saint Francis, which both bear his name.
- Bénilde Romançon, F.S.C., a French educator, who was the first member of his religious institute to be canonized
- Martyrs of Turon