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| 11/16/18 | Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil A rendering of the Diocese of Orange's Our Lady of La Vang Shrine. Image courtesy of Torrence ArchitectsGARDEN GROVE, Calif. (RNS) — Like most Vietnamese-American Catholics, Elysabeth Nguyen grew up hearing stories of Our Lady of La Vang, who is said to have saved her people from persecution. The
Marian apparition is said to have appeared in the late 1700s to a group of Catholics fleeing persecution in Vietnam. She then became a centerpiece of Catholic faith in the country, and after the fall of Saigon in 1975 — when more than a million Vietnamese became refugees — her intercession...