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Yosefu Khang Duy Nguyen
SaintResearchedThird Order of Saint DominicDocumented cause
Feast: 24 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1832
Died
1861
Beatified
20 May 1906
unverified
Canonised
19 June 1988
unverified
Who they were
In the city of Hai Duong in Tonkin, now Viet Nam, Saint Joseph Nguyen Duy Khang, martyr, who, a catechist and travelling companion of the holy bishop Jerónimo Hermosilla, was captured together with him, flogged and kept in prison during the persecution of the emperor Tu Duc, and finally beheaded.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 6 December as a catechist and companion of Bishop Hermosilla, beheaded under Tu Duc.
Connected on this site
- Vietnamese Martyrs Saint honoured together
- Jerónimo Hermosilla Saint“In the city of Hai Duong in Tonkin, now Viet Nam, Saint Joseph Nguyen Duy Khang, martyr, who, a catechist and travelling companion of the holy bishop Jerónimo Hermosilla, was captured together with him, flogged and kept in prison during the persecution of the emperor Tu Duc, and finally beheaded.” — this site's research
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 6 December (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q10761653 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.