VIETNAMESE MARTYR'S HONOURED DEC18-21

St. Paul My
Feastday: December 18
1838
Vietnamese martyr. A convert to Catholicism, Paul entered into the service of the Paris Foreign Missions and thus helped to spread the Catholic faith in Vietnam. He was seized by enemies of the Church and was martyred by strangulation. He was canonized in 1988.

St. Peter Truat
Feastday: December 18
1838
Vietnamese martyr. He was a fellow catechist with Peter Duong. They were put to death by Vietnamese authorities. Both were canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988.

St. Augustine Moi
Feastday: December 19
1839
One of the martyrs of Vietnam. A Dominican tertiary, Augustine worked as a day laborer. When the persecution of the faith started, he was ordered to trample a crucifix, an act he refused. Augustine's tormentors strangled him for his loyalty to Christ. He was beautified in 1900 and canonized in 1988 by Pope John Paul II.

St. Thomas De & Companions
Feastday: December 19
1839
Vietnamese martyrs. Thomas was a Vietnamese tailor who entered the Dominicans as a tertiary. Arrested on the charge of giving aid and shelter to foreign missionaries, he was strangled. Four other Catholic Vietnamese died with Thomas. They were canonized in 1988.

St. Dominic Uy
Feastday: December 19
1839
Vietnamese martyr, a tertiary of the Dominican Order. He was strangled at the age of twenty-six. Dominic was beatified in 1900 and canonized in 1988.

Bl. Francis Man
Feastday: December 19
1839
Dominican tertiary, a martyr of Vietnam. Francis was serving as a catechist when arrested. He and four companions were strangled. He was beatified in 1900.

St. Francis Xavier Mau
Feastday: December 19
1839
Martyr of Vietnam. He was a native catechist who was strangled, as were his four companions.

St. Peter Thi
Feastday: December 20
1839
Vietnamese martyr. A native of Vietnam, Peter became a priest, serving to advance the Christian cause in the country. He was seized and beheaded by anti-Catholic elements, at age sixty. Pope John Paul II canonized him in 1988.

St. Andrew Dung LacFeastday: December 21
1839
Vietnamese martyr, companion of St. Peter Thi. Andrew, born in 1785, was a priest in Vietnam, his homeland. He was arrested and beheaded on December 21 with Peter Thi. He was canonized in 1988

St. Peter Duong

St. Peter Duong
Feastday: December 10
1838
Vietnamese martyr. A native of Vietnam, Peter served as a catechist and, with Peter Truat, was martyred by anti-Christian forces.

Martyr of Vietnam December 4

St. Theophane Venard
Feastday: December 4
1861
Martyr of Vietnam. Born on November 21, 1829, and originally from the diocese of Poitiers, France, he entered into the Foreign Missions of Paris and was ordained in 1852. Sent to Vietnam two years later, he devoted his time to teaching in a seminary until his arrest and brutal martyrdom. Theophane was chained in a cage for months and then beheaded. He was canonized in 1988 by Pope John Paul II