Henri Denis (Benoît Thuận)
French missionary priest who founded the first Cistercian monastery in Vietnam
Who they were
Henri Denis, of the Paris Foreign Missions, was ordained in 1903, sent to Huế and in 1918 founded the monastery of Our Lady of An Nam, origin of the Cistercian Congregation of the Holy Family.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Cistercian Order petitioned for his cause and the inquiry opened in Rome on 14 December 2018.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.