Saint Andrew Trong Van Tram
- Memorial
- 28 November;
24 November as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam
- Profile
- Raised Catholic, but kept quiet about it in public.
Layman.
Career soldier and officer.
Worked to help the missionaries of the Paris Foreign Mission Society.
In 1834 authorities discovered Andrew's Catholicism; he was stripped of rank and imprisoned for the faith.
He was given the opportunity to gain his freedom by renouncing Christianity; he declined.
One of the Martyrs of Vietnam.
- Born
- 1817 in Vietnam
- Died
- beheaded in 1835 in Hue, Vietnam;
his mother knelt beside the executioner's block to catch his severed head as it fell
- Name Meaning
- strong, manly (Andrew)
- Canonized
- 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II
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