The Last Surviving Trappist Monk From Algeria Massacre Has Died at 97

November 23, 2021 by Web Master

Pope Francis greeted Father Jean Pierre Schumacher in Morocco March 31, 2019. His martyred community was beatified in December 2018.

The seven martyred monks from his community were beatified on Dec. 8, 2018, along with 12 other Christians killed during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s.