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Also known as

• Emmanuel Triêu
• Emmanuel Triêu Van Nguyen

Memorial

• 17 September
• 24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam

Profile

Raised Catholic. Soldier. Seminarian with the Paris Foreign Mission Society. Ordained at Pong-King. Parish priest in the apostolic vicariate of Cochinchina. Arrested for his faith while visiting his mother. One of the Martyrs of Vietnam.

Born

• c.1756 in The Ðúc, Phu Xuân (now Hue), Vietnam

Died

• 17 September 1798 in Bãi Dâu, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), 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

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Katolsk i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson