December 26th Blessed Pierre Boffet

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December 26th Blessed Pierre Boffet

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Blessed Pierre Boffet was a Mercedarian, Professor of theology, and noted preacher was born in France. He worked to ransom Christians enslaved in Muslim-controlled areas. While on a ransom mission to Tunisia in 1442, he and Blessed Lorenzo Company were shipwrecked and imprisoned for ransom themselves. When Pierre converted a Muslim to Christianity, he was abused and executed. Martyr.

Blessed Pierre Boffet died in 1452.
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales
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