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Vietnamese Martyrs; Died: 1745–1862, present-day Vietnam: ... one of the largest of which is located in Arlington, Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. [7] ...
Their memorial in the current General Roman Calendar is on November 24 as Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (Vietnamese: Anrê Dũng-Lạc và các bạn tử đạo), although many of these saints have a second memorial, having been beatified and inscribed on the local calendar prior to the canonization of the group.
Pope Francis named Olson as bishop of Fort Worth on November 19, 2013. He was consecrated on January 29, 2014, by Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller. Archbishop Emeritus Fiorenza and Bishop Kevin Vann acted as the co-consecrators. [3] The liturgy was celebrated in the Fort Worth Convention Center. [3]
Andrew of Phú Yên (1624 – 26 July 1644) [1] is known as the "Protomartyr of Vietnam."Baptized in 1641, he was a dedicated assistant to Jesuit missionaries and was thus arrested in the purge of Christians launched in 1644.
Emperor Tự Đức (r. 1848–1883) of Vietnam. From 1849 to 1862, during the early years of the Vietnamese emperor Tự Đức (r. 1848–1883) of Vietnam, the most intense, brutal and bloodiest anti-Christian persecution ever in history happened in Vietnam, also was the last state-sponsored persecution of Catholic Christians in Vietnam, as a part of Tự Đức's efforts to eradicate every ...
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.
From 1848 to 1851 he worked as missionary while learning the Vietnamese language. In the spring of 1850 his bishop gave him the task of evangelizing Son Tay in the north. Schoeffler was arrested on 1 March 1851, and on 5 March found guilty of proselytising. He was beheaded on 1 May 1851, at Son Tay. [4] Martyrdom of St Augustin Schoeffler.
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)