Bernard Due Van Vo
Vietnamese priest
Feast: 1 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Bernard Vu Van Due, (Vietnamese: Thánh Bênađô Vũ Văn Duệ) (1755 – 1 August 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, at the age of 82 or 83, for being a Roman Catholic priest in Tonkin. He was later canonised as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q4893085 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Bernard Vũ Văn Duệ (CC BY-SA)
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