Saint Dominic Nicholas Dat Dinh

Memorial
24 November
Profile
Adult convert to Catholicism, and while records are vague, he may have been a Dominican tertiary. Soldier and officer. Arrested for his faith during the government persecutions, he was stripped of rank and position. Given the chance for release and reinstatement by denying his faith; he declined. One of the Martyrs of Vietnam.
Born
Vietnamese
Died
strangled to death in 1839
Canonized
19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II
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