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Joseph Marchand (17 August 1803 – 30 November 1835) was a French missionary in Vietnam and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. [1] He is now a Catholic saint, celebrated on 30 November.
Marchand was eventually captured and executed as a "rebel leader" in 1835; he was put to death by "slow slicing". [11] Further repressive measures were introduced in the wake of this episode in 1836. Before 1836, village heads had only to report to local mandarins about how their subjects had recanted Catholicism.
The French missionary Father Joseph Marchand, of the Paris Foreign Missions Society was captured in the siege, and had been supporting Khôi, and asked for the help of the Siamese army, through communications to his counterpart in Siam, Father Jean-Louis Taberd. This showed the strong Catholic involvement in the revolt and Father Marchand was ...
Father Marchand was tortured and executed on 5 November 1835, as was the child Le Van Cu. [2] The failure of the revolt had a disastrous effect on the Christian communities of Vietnam. [5] New waves of persecutions against Christians followed, and demands were made to find and execute remaining missionaries. [1]
Execution of Joseph Marchand in Vietnam, 1835. Lingchi existed under the earliest emperors, [citation needed] although similar but less cruel tortures were often prescribed instead. Under the reign of Qin Er Shi, the second emperor of the Qin dynasty, various tortures were used to punish officials.
After Vietnam under Gia Long gained control over Cambodia in the early 19th century, a Vietnamese-approved monarch was installed. Minh Mạng was forced to put down a Siamese attempt to regain control of the vassal, as well as an invasion of southern Vietnam which coincided with rebellion by Lê Văn Khôi. The Siamese planned the invasion to ...
Dr. Jonathan Shay, in his book Achilles in Vietnam The entire military is “a moral construct,” said retired VA psychiatrist and author Jonathan Shay . In his ground-breaking 1994 study of combat trauma among Vietnam veterans, Achilles in Vietnam , he writes: “The moral power of an army is so great that it can motivate men to get up out of ...
Ten martyrs of the M.E.P. were canonized by John-Paul II, 19 June 1988, as part of 117 martyrs of Vietnam, including 11 Dominican priests, 37 Vietnamese priests, and 59 Vietnamese laics: François-Isidore Gagelin (1833) Joseph Marchand (1835) Jean-Charles Cornay (1837) François Jaccard (1838) Bishop Pierre Borie, vicar apostolic of Western ...