At the citadel of Sơn Tây in Tonkin, Saint Jean-Charles Cornay, priest of the Paris Society of Foreign Missions and martyr, who for confessing the Christian faith, after dreadful tortures, by decree of the emperor Minh Mạng was cut into pieces and at last beheaded.
September 20th
Saint Jean-Charles Cornay
Latin Original
In arce Son-Tày in Tunquíno, sancti Ioánnis Cároli Cornay, presbyteri e Societáte Parisiénsi Missiónum ad éxteras gentes et mártyris, qui ob christiánam confessiónem post dira supplícia decréto imperatóris Minh Mang 1n partes disséctus est et demum decollátus.