Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse
(1750-1815)
French bishop and saint
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Bishop St. Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse (8 December 1750 - 14 September 1815) was a member of Society of Foreign Missions of Paris and a Martyr Saint of the Catholic Church. He was born at Ville-de-Lezoux, diocese of Clermont, France. He joined the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris seminary in 1774. He was ordained a priest on 17 September 1774. He was sent as a missionary to Szechuan, China in 1775. There he was imprisoned for six months in 1784 during a government persecution of Christians. He was reassigned to Macao, but return to the Chinese missions in 1788.
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8 December 1750 Lezoux, France
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14 September 1815 (aged 64)
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