Career
He is a Catholic saint, canonized in 1988 along with other Vietnamese Martyrs. The Borie family was a middle-class family of Beynat in Bas-Limousin. Family members had different backgrounds.
Pierre"s godfather undertook the first rudiments of his education before he left for the Seminary of Servières in 1824.
He was ordained a priest in Bayeux on 21 November 1830, Pierre was sent overseas, reaching Macao on 18 July 1831. He was brought to Saigon by Chinese smugglers, evading the ban on proselytizing.
He joined the South Tonkin mission, but was met with persecution. He persevered in fulfilling his pastoral task in the area which was entrusted to him.
Pierre was arrested in 1838, and he learned in prison that he had been named titular bishop of Acanthus on 30 January 1836.
Shortly after this, on 24 November 1838, he was given a death sentence, which was carried out that day.