Saint Clemente Ignacio Delgado Cebrián
Also known as
- Ignacio Clemente Delgado Cebrián
- Ignacio Delgado y Cebrián
- Ignatius Delgado y Cebrian
- Ignatius Delgado y Cebrián
- Klemens Ignatius Delgado y Cebrián
- 12 July
- 24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam
Profile
Raised in a pious family. Dominican priest. Missionary to Vietnam for nearly 50 years. Co-adjutor vicar-apostolic at East Tonkin, Vietnam and titular bishop of Metellopolis on 11 February 1794. During government oppression of Christianity, he was locked in a cage, put on public display for ridicule and abuse, and left to die. One of the Martyrs of Vietnam.
Born
- 23 November 1761 in Villafeliche, Zaragoza, Spain
- 12 July 1838 of hunger and exposure in Nam Ðinh, Vietnam
