Venerated in Roman Catholic Church Died 1 August 1838, Vietnam | Feast August 1 | |
Canonized 19 June 1988, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II | ||
Saint Bernard Due Van Vu, (Vietnamese: Thánh Bênađô Vũ Văn Duệ) (1755 – August 1, 1838) was a Vietnamese convert to Catholicism. He became a priest and worked as a missionary in the country for several decades. He was arrested and beheaded in 1838 for being a Roman Catholic priest in Tonkin. He was later canonised as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam.
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