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St. Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions

A Vietnamese priest and his companions, among thousands who died for Christ in Vietnam.

Feast: 24 November · 1820 to 1862 · The modern era · Vietnam

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Old printed sheet with small round portraits of Vietnamese martyrs arranged around a central emblem.

Alex Maynardo Castro, 2008. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

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Hanoi, 1839

For more than a century, Catholics in Vietnam were persecuted, and many thousands were killed.1

Andrew Dung-Lac was a Vietnamese priest arrested several times; his people paid ransoms to free him.1

He was finally beheaded in Hanoi in 1839.

Patronage No official patronage we can cite yet. The Church remembers them as the martyrs of Vietnam.

01St. Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions

The martyrs of Vietnam

He is one of 117 martyrs of Vietnam, Vietnamese and foreign, priests and lay people, who died between 1820 and 1862.1

All 117 were canonized together.1

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Notes

How we know · 1 source for this page
  1. Franciscan Media, Saint of the Day: “Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions”. franciscanmedia.org. franciscanmedia.org

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