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Vietnamese martyrs Paul Mi, Pierre Duong, Pierre Truat, martyred on 18 December 1838 Christians at the time were branded on the face with the words "tả đạo" ( 左 道 , lit. "unorthodox religion") [ 5 ] and families and villages which subscribed to Christianity were obliterated.
Sculpture of Vietnamese martyrs at the Cha Tam Church, Ho Chi Minh City. The persecution began in 1848, the year of Tự Đức's inauguration. Accusing the Catholic Christians of abandoning ancestor worship, Buddha, and practicing superstitions, and fearing that they would revolt against his rule, [1] Tự Đức labeled the Catholics as tả đạo (heretics), and issued a nation-wide edict ...
He was born Trần An Dũng in Vietnam in 1795. He took the name Andrew at his baptism (Anrê Dũng) and was ordained a priest on 15 March 1823. [2] During persecution, Andrew Dũng changed his name to Lạc to avoid capture, and thus he is memorialised as Andrew Dũng-Lạc (Anrê Dũng Lạc). [3]
Vietnamese Martyrs (Vietnamese: Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam), also known as the Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, collectively Martyrs of Annam or formerly Martyrs of Indochina, are saints of the Catholic Church who were canonized by Pope John Paul II.
Michael Hồ Đình Hy (胡 廷 僖; 1808– 22 May 1857) was a Vietnamese mandarin official who was martyred for his Roman Catholic belief during the persecutions by Emperor Tự Đức. [1] He was canonized in 1988 along with another 116 Vietnamese Martyrs. [2]
Vietnamese Catholics who died for their faith from 1533 to the present day were canonized in 1988 by John Paul II as "Vietnamese Martyrs". On 26 March 1997, the beatification process for the Redemptorist brother Marcel Nguyễn Tân Văn was opened by Cardinal Nguyễn Văn Thuận in the diocese of Belley-Ars, France.
The 103 Sainted Korean Martyrs (1984, North Korea and South Korea) Lorenzo Ruiz and fifteen companions, martyrs (1987, Japan and Philippines) The 117 Vietnamese Martyrs (1988, Vietnam) John Gabriel Perboyre, priest of the Congregation of the Mission and martyr (1996, China) The 120 Martyr Saints of China (2000, China)
24 November (with the Vietnamese Martyrs) 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.