Auguste Chapdelaine
Auguste Chapdelaine, Chinese name Mǎ Lài (6 February 1814 – 29 February 1856) was a French Christian missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. France used his death – Chapdelaine was executed by Chinese officials – as a casus belli for its participation in the Second Opium War.
In the Martyrology
- February 29 Saint Auguste Chapdelaine, priest of Paris Foreign Missions and martyr of China