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Monday, November 24, 2008

Vietnam veterans

Andrew Dung Lac An Tran, 54, priest
beheaded

Anthony Quynh Nam, 72, doctor
strangled

Dominic Henares, 83, bishop
beheaded

Francis Trung Von Tran, 33, soldier
beheaded

John Charles Cornay, 26, priest
beheaded

Joseph Uen, 52, priest
strangled

Paul Le Bao Tinh, priest
martyred

Peter Thi Van Truong Pham, 76, priest
beheaded

There were many more: well over a hundred
- missionaries and natives,
priests, bishops, catechists,
farmers, doctors, soldiers,
husbands and fathers -
martyred for the Christian faith in Vietnam
in various ways and in various locations over the centuries,
canonized in 1988 as the Martyrs of Vietnam
and memorialized on this day.


(adapted from an earlier post)