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St. Peter Chanel was a catholic French priest and martyr who lived from 1803 to 1841. From a young age, he had wanted to become a missionary, so in 1831 he joined the then newly formed Society of Mary (Marists) to go to the foreign missions. He traveled and preached mainly in Oceania, visited several islands, and eventually ended up on Futuna in 1837. The king of the island became unhappy with the missionaries when they learned enough of the local language to start preaching in it, because he was afraid that his position, which involved some claims of divinity, would be threatened. The breaking point was when the king's son wanted to be baptized. The king sent one of his soldiers to kill St. Peter Chanel, and he was clubbed to death with an axe. Interestingly, the king eventually converted to Catholicism himself before he died. St. Peter Chanel was made a saint in 1954 and his feast day is April 28.

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