Saint Antôn Nguyen Huu Quynh

Memorial

• 24 November

Profile

Layman. Physician. Catechist. Worked to help the missionaries of the Paris Foreign Mission Society. Arrested in 1838 he spent two years in prison for associating with foreign missionaries. There, between bouts of torture and abuse, he used his medical skills to help fellow prisoners. One of the Martyrs of Vietnam.

Born

• c.1768 in My Huong, Quang Bình, Vietnam

Died

• strangled to death on 10 July 1840 at Ðong Hoi, Quang Bình, Vietnam

Beatified

• 27 May 1900 by Pope Leo XIII

Canonized

• 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Hagiography Circle
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Antôn Nguyen Huu Quynh”. Saints.SQPN.com. 6 August 2012. Web. 20 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-anton-nguyen-huu-quynh/>