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Maurice Tornay

Swiss presbyter (1910-1949)
Person human Q117799

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[12]
Date of birth
October 31, 1910, August 31, 1910[8]
Date of death
August 11, 1949
Place of birth
Orsières
Place of death
Tibet
Country of citizenship
Switzerland[10]
Occupation
Catholic missionary, missionary, Catholic priest
Religion or worldview
Catholic Church[11]
Languages spoken, written or signed
French[18]
Canonization status
The Venerable[13]
Family name
Tornay[14]
Feast day
August 11[16]
Given name
Maurice[15]
Manner of death
homicide[17]
P14611
29084[19]
Place of burial
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Yerkalo[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Maurice Tornay pl Bł. Maurycy pl Błogosławiony Maurycy pl Maurice Tornay pl Maurycy Tornay zh 杜仲賢 zh 杜仲贤
🔖 Identifiers · 31
ISNI
0000000109800950
VIAF cluster ID
64264617
Library of Congress authority ID
n94035087
GND ID
119102943
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Mauricetornayagaunien.jpg ↗
Angelicum ID
13181
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
14640300d
Causesanti.va ID
maurice-tornay
DDB person (GND) ID
119102943
Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID
119102943
FAST ID
338058
GCatholic person ID
66131
Show all 31 identifiers +19
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1211qdwq
HDS ID
009698
Heiligen.net ID
08/11/08-11-1949-maurice
IdRef ID
061792799
IxTheo authority ID
695715488
KBR person ID
15175871
NLP ID
a0000002712138
NUKAT ID
n2008109326
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007861187905171
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810539578905606
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
297313967
Nominis saint ID
10190/Bienheureux-Maurice-Tornay
Parsifal cluster ID
132968
SBN author ID
PUVV315237
Santiebeati ID
92068
Vatican Library VcBA ID
495/43707
WorldCat Entities ID
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Yale LUX ID
person/af2b6db9-e2e6-49e5-ab1d-20864f746e9a
Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID
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Canonization status 1
The Venerable
Country of citizenship 1
Switzerland
Feast day 1
August 11
Given name 1
Maurice
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
French
Manner of death 1
homicide
Occupation 1
presbyter
Place of birth 1
Orsières
Place of burial 1
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Yerkalo
Place of death 1
Tibet
Religion or worldview 1
Catholic Church
Sex or gender 1
male
← FactGrid item ID 1
Jouy-en-Josas
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Summary

Maurice Tornay was born on October 31, 1910[1], in Orsières[2]. He died on August 11, 1949[3], in Tibet[4]. He worked as a Catholic missionary[5], missionary[6], and Catholic priest[7].

FAQs

Where was Maurice Tornay born?

Maurice Tornay's place of birth was Orsières[2].

Where did Maurice Tornay die?

Maurice Tornay passed away in Tibet[4].

What did Maurice Tornay do for work?

Maurice Tornay worked as a Catholic missionary[5], missionary[6], and Catholic priest[7].

Related Entities

Jouy-en-Josas Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [8] ↑ . Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [3] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . data.bnf.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'fr', 'it', 'pl', 'zh']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|1 */ Date of death: 11 August 1949, source for date of death from the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot 2|O"
  2. 8w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Occupation → Catholic missionary, missionary, Catholic priest
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Occupation: presbyter, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1788774155303"
  3. 9w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Occupation → Catholic missionary, missionary, Catholic priest
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51085|batch #51085]]: more precise P106 value for Catholic priest"
  4. 16w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14611 → 29084
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14611: 29084, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260288|batch #260288]]"
  5. 22w ago · Bargioni · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Languages spoken, written or signed → French
    Date of birth → +1910-10-31T00:00:00Z, +1910-08-31T00:00:00Z
    Manner of death → homicide
    Place of death → Tibet
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/34032|batch #34032]]: add P1810 to P8034"
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