Siméon-François Berneux
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Siméon-François Berneux (14 May 1814 – 7 March 1866) was a French Catholic missionary, and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who was canonized as a saint.
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He was born at Château-du-Loir, and was executed in the anti-Christian purges at Saenamteo, Seoul, Korea, in 1866. His death provoked the French intervention the same year.
His relics are in the Institut St. Philipp Neri in Berlin, Germany.
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Categories: 1814 births | 1866 deaths | French Roman Catholic priests | Korean Roman Catholic priests | Korean saints | Korean Roman Catholic saints | French saints | French Roman Catholic saints | Paris Foreign Missions Society | Archbishops of Seoul | 19th-century Christian saints | 19th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
