Saint Ignatius Delgado y Cebrian
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- Also known as
- Ignacio Clemente Delgado Cebrián
- Memorial
- 12 July
- Profile
- Raised in a pious family.
Dominican.
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 at Villafeliche, Spain
- Died
- 12 July 1838 of hunger and exposure in Vietnam
- Beatified
- 27 May 1900 by Pope Leo XIII
- Canonized
- 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II
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