May 01, 2020
Two of China’s saints are Francis-Regis Clet, CM, and Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, CM. They lived in the 1800s in the Wuhan district (where the novel coronavirus came from). What’s fascinating is that they lived in fear because of the chaos and turbulence that churned around them; they were isolated; and they died from strangulation. In fact, they are among the few Catholic saints who died because they could not breathe.
Read more about them in this intriguing article.