Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
VENARD, JEAN-THÉOPHANE, Blessed. - B. November 21, 1829, in St-Loup-sur-Thouet (Deux-Sèvres, France) and d. February 2, 1861.
While already a subdeacon, he entered the Seminary of the Foreign Missions in Paris on March 3, 1851. Ordained a priest on June 5, 1852, he departed on Sept. 19 of the same year for
VENANZIO, santo - S. V. S. Venanzio (mid-7th cent.) - Rome, Baptistery of S. Giovanni in Laterano. (photo M. M. Vaticani)Hong Kong, and toward the end of 1853 was sent to Western Tonkin. Despite continuous persecution and poor health, and amid great difficulties, he exercised his ministry in various locations, using his forced rests to translate the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles, and the Apocalypse into Annamese. Following a denunciation, he was arrested at Ke-beo on Nov. 30, 1860, and, enclosed in a cage, was led to Hanoi, where he was
VENANZIO FORTUNATO, santo - First part of the hymn: Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis - Vatican Library, cod. Vat. lat. 552, f. 62v (9th-10th cent.). (photo Enc. C. C. C.)beheaded the following year. The body was buried at the very place of execution and was exhumed in 1864 to be transported to Paris. The head, thrown into the Red River, was found two weeks later and is now venerated in the church of Ké-tru. He was beatified by Pius X on April 11, 1909.
BIBL.: anon., Mémorial de la Société des Missions Étrangères, part 2nd, Paris 1916, pp. 619-20; F. Trochu, Le bx Th. V., Lyon 1929. Antonio Anoge
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“VENARD, JEAN-THÉOPHANE, BEATO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII (1954), p. 751. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/venard-jean-theophane-beato.
