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Also known as

• Lucian
• Luciano

Memorial

• 12 May

Profile

Member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. Priest. Missionary to China, working the Xichang, Sichuan area. Imprisoned for this work in November 1950, he was exiled and arrived in Hong Kong in January 1952. He was reassigned to a mountainous area of Laos in 1956; in February 1960 he replaced Blessed René Dubroux who had been murdered in 1959. Parish priest of Blessed Thomas Khampheuane Inthirath, he was taking the boy to catechist training when the two were murdered. Martyr.

Born

• 9 December 1921 in Golinhac, Aveyron, France

Died

• shot on 12 May 1968 on the highway in Houey Makchan, Paksong, Champasak, Laos

Venerated

• 5 June 2015 by Pope Francis (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 11 December 2016 by Pope Francis
• beatification recognition celebrated in Vientiane, Laos, presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Lucien Galan“. CatholicSaints.Info. 11 May 2021. Web. 27 October 2021. <>