Martyrs of Vietnam - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Martyrs of Vietnam - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online



Eastern Vietnam - fifteen priests, 60 cathechists, 250 nuns, 24,000 Catholic lay men and women. Southern Vietnam - ten priests, 8,585 Catholic men and women. Southern Tonkin region - eight French missionaries, one native priest, 63 cathechists, and 400 more Christians slain - in all, in the Southern Tonkin region an estimated 4,799 were martyred and 1,181 died of starvation. Some 10,000 Catholics were forced to flee the area. Feastday Nov 24

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