Today Christians Commemorate St. Andrew Dung-Lac & Companions, Martyrs For Christ

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(Franciscan Media) Born 1795 in Vietnam, Andrew Dung-Lac was one of 117 people martyred for Christ in Vietnam between 1820-1862

Fr. Andrew Dung-Lac worked in missions with Priests of the ‘Society of Foreign Missions of Paris’ according to SQPN — Imprisoned and repeatedly tortured during the persecutions of Minh-Meng, he died together with St. Peter Thi in 1839

EWTN Video: St. Dung-Lac Priest, Martyr
and Martyred Companions

All 117 were part of the group Beatified on four different occasions between 1900-1951 and Canonized in 1988 by Pope Saint John Paul II

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