Honorific Prefix: | Saint |
Saint Pierre-Henri Doris | |
Birth Date: | 23 September 1839 |
Birth Place: | Saint-Hilaire-de-Talmont, Vendée, France |
Death Place: | Saenamteo, Seoul, South Korea |
Beatified Date: | 6 October 1968 |
Beatified By: | Pope Paul VI |
Canonized Date: | 6 May 1984 |
Canonized By: | Pope John Paul II |
Pierre Henri Dorie (1839–1866) was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, who was martyred in Korea in 1866.[1] His feast day is 7 March,[2] and he is also venerated along with the rest of the 103 Korean Martyrs on 20 September.
Henri Dorie was born on 23 September 1839 in Saint-Hilaire-de-Talmont.
Following the arrest and execution of Bishop Siméon-François Berneux on 7 March 1866, all but three of the French missionaries in Korea were also captured and executed: among them were Bishop Antoine Daveluy, Father Just de Bretenières, Father Louis Beaulieu, Father Dorie, Father Pierre Aumaître, Father Martin-Luc Huin, all of them members of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.
The persecutions triggered the French Campaign against Korea in October–November 1866, which reinforced the Korean policy of isolationism.
Like the other martyrs, Pierre Henri Dorie was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 6 May 1984 under the name Peter Henricus Dorie.