Bernard Due Van Vu, ( vi, Thánh Bênađô Vũ Văn Duệ) (1755 – August 1, 1838) was a Vietnamese
convert to
Catholicism. He became a
priest and worked as a
missionary in the country for several decades. He was arrested and
beheaded in 1838 for being a Roman Catholic priest in Tonkin. He was later
canonised as one of the
Martyrs of Vietnam
The Vietnamese Martyrs (Vietnamese: ''Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam''; French: ''Martyrs du Viêt Nam''), also known as the Martyrs of Annam, Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, Martyrs of Indochina, or Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (Anrê D ...
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1755 births
1838 deaths
Vietnamese Roman Catholic priests
Vietnamese Roman Catholic saints
Converts to Roman Catholicism
18th-century Roman Catholic priests
19th-century Roman Catholic priests
19th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
People executed by Vietnam by decapitation
Beatifications by Pope Leo XIII
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