Marcel Van (Nguyễn Tân Văn)
Vietnamese Redemptorist brother who died in a communist labour camp
Who they were
Marcel Van was a Redemptorist brother in Vietnam, known for his spiritual writings, who was imprisoned by the communist authorities and died in the camp at Yên Bình in 1959.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
His cause as a martyr received the nihil obstat in 1995 and the diocesan inquiry opened in the French diocese of Belley-Ars on 26 March 1997.
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.