Saint Anthony Quynh Nam

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
1768 in Vietnam
Died
strangled to death in 1840
Beatified
27 May 1900
Canonized
19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II
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