11 Facts About Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy

Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy was a French missionary and saint.

Antoine Daveluy was born 16 March 1818 in Amiens, France.

Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy's father was a factory owner, town councilman, and government official.

Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy entered the St Sulpice Seminary in Issy-les-Moulineaux himself in October 1834 and was ordained a priest on 18 December 1841.

Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy departed for East Asia on 6 February 1844, intending to serve as a missionary in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.

Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy arrived in Macau, where he was persuaded by the newly appointed apostolic vicar of Korea, Jean-Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Ferreol, to accompany him there instead.

Father Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy began work as a missionary in Korea, becoming fluent in the language.

Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy was the most scholarly of the early mission priests.

Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy wrote a Korean-French dictionary and other books about the Catholic Church and its history in Korean.

Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy was consecrated by Bishop Berneux on 25 March 1857.

Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy was beheaded at a Korean naval base in Galmaemot near present-day Boryeong along with two French priests, Pierre Aumaitre and Martin-Luc Huin, and two lay catechists, Lucas Hwang Sok-tu and Joseph Chang Chu-gi.