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A representative sample of only 117 martyrs—including 96 Vietnamese, 11 Spanish Dominicans, and 10 French members of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP))—were beatified on four separate occasions: 64 by Pope Leo XIII on May 27, 1900; eight by Pope Pius X on May 20, 1906; 20 by Pope Pius X on May 2, 1909 ...
Nhất Chi Mai (February 20, 1934 – May 16, 1967), born Phan Thị Mai and legally named Thích nữ Diệu Huỳnh, was a Buddhist nun who killed herself in an act of self-immolation in Saigon on May 16, 1967, in protest at the Vietnam War.
Our Lady of La Vang (Vietnamese: Đức Mẹ La Vang) refers to a reported Marian apparition at a time when Catholics were persecuted and killed in Vietnam.The Shrine of our Lady of La Vang (Basilica of Our Lady of La Vang) is situated in what is today Hải Phú commune in Hải Lăng District of Quảng Trị Province in Central Vietnam.
Long Tieng (also spelled Long Chieng, Long Cheng, or Long Chen) is a Laotian military base in Xaisomboun Province. [1] During the Laotian Civil War, it served as a town and airbase operated by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. [2] During this time, it was also referred to as Lima Site 98 (LS 98) or Lima Site 20A (LS 20A).
Thuận was born in Huế in 1928, the son of Nguyễn Văn Ấm and Elizabeth Ngô Đình Thị Hiệp, daughter of Ngô Đình Khả. [5] He joined the seminary at An Ninh as a teenager, and was ordained a priest on 11 June 1953, by Monsignor Jean-Baptiste Urrutia. [5]
Thieleman Janszoon van Braght (29 January 1625 – 7 October 1664) was the Anabaptist author of the Martyrs Mirror or The Bloody Theater, first published in Holland in 1660 in Dutch. Van Braght was born in Dordrecht.
Dang Nhat Minh was born in Hue, Annam in 1938. His father, Đặng Văn Ngữ, was a medical doctor whose research led him to work frequently abroad, such as in Japan from 1943–1950. Because of this Minh and his siblings were largely raised by his mother. [2] In 1950, Minh was sent by the Vietnamese Communist Party(VCP) to a Chinese military ...
72 Heroes is a 2011 Chinese historical drama film directed by Hong Kong film director Derek Chiu, better known as Sung Kee Chiu, based on the story of the 72 Martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the Second Guangzhou Uprising.