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27 May 1900. Canonized. 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II. Feast. 30 November. 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.
July 8, 2006. (2006-07-08) (aged 61) Santa Monica, California. Website. dotationcatherineleroy.org. Catherine Leroy (August 27, 1944 - July 8, 2006) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications.
September 26, 1968. (1968-09-26) (aged 33) Đắk Lắk Province, South Vietnam. (now Vietnam) Occupation (s) Nurse, missionary. Betty Ann Olsen (October 22, 1934 – September 26, 1968) [1] was an African-born American nurse and missionary. She was killed while captive as a prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...
Vietnamese Embassy, Paris. French–Vietnamese relations started as early as the 17th century with the mission of the Jesuit father Alexandre de Rhodes. Various traders would visit Vietnam during the 18th century, until the major involvement of French forces under Pigneau de Béhaine from 1787 to 1789 helped establish the Nguyễn dynasty ...
The French Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes is at the origin of the creation of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.. The creation of the Paris Foreign Missions Society was initiated when the Jesuit priest Alexandre de Rhodes, back from Vietnam and asking for the dispatch of numerous missionaries to the Far East, obtained in 1650 an agreement by Pope Innocent X to send secular priests and bishops as ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Los Angeles. Many foreign governments have established diplomatic and trade representation in the city of Los Angeles, California. Most of them are at the Consulate-General level; many of these are located along Wilshire Boulevard or on the Westside of Los Angeles. In addition, Los Angeles has a number ...
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is dedicated to remembering those who served in the USA armed forces in Vietnam and to maintaining the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. (VVMF), is the non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, a former Army Infantry in Vietnam.