Saint Augustinô Phan Viet Huy

Also known as

• Augustine Huy Viet Phan
• Augustine of Huy

Memorial

• 12 June
• 24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam

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Lifelong layman in the apostolic vicariate of East Tonkin. Soldier. Worked to help the foreign missionaries. Worked, tortured and died with Saint Nicolas The. One of the Martyrs of Vietnam.

Born

• c.1795 in Ha Linh, Nam Ðinh, Vietnam

Died

• sawn in half on 12 June 1839 in Thua Thiên, Vietnam

Venerated

• 2 July 1899 by Pope Leo XIII (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 27 May 1900 by Pope Leo XIII

Canonized

• 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II