PERBOYRE, JEAN-GABRIEL, blessed – Last letter, written in prison before his martyrdom (Macao, 24 Nov. 1840).
69 foreign laymen; 72 indigenous nuns, 86 foreign; 1 major seminary with 23 students, 1 minor seminary with 154 students; 1024 catechists, 211 male teachers, 9 female teachers. Quasi-parishes 29, secondary mission stations 22; churches 41, chapels 29. Hospitals 15; dispensaries 29; leprosariums 2. There is a periodical with a circulation of 4000 copies. Schools: elementary 76; secondary 7; vocational 2; teacher-training 1. In the various mission centres of the abbey, the associations of Catholic Action are flourishing.
BIBL.: AAS, 5 (1913), p. 497; 20 (1928), pp. 97-98; 24 (1932), p. 262; MC, 1950, p. 189; A catholic Directory of East Africa 1950, Mombasa 1950, pp. 92-100; Arch. di Prop. Fide, pos. prot. n. 4531-51. Carlo Corvo