First Martyr of Oceania - Story of St. Peter Chanel

Rebroadcast of the long running radio program, "The Ave Maria Hour", a presentation of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement. www.atonementfriars.org

First Martyr of Oceania – The story of St. Peter Chanel, a French Marist priest and servant of Christ, who took His Gospel to the peoples of the Pacific.  He was martyred in 1841 and was canonized on June 16, 1954 by Pope Pius the XII.