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Thursday, November 24

Liturgical Color: Red


Today is the Memorial of St. Andrew Dung-Lac, priest and martyr. St. Andrew worked as a missionary among his people in Viet Nam during a time of great persecution of Christians. He was beheaded in 1839, charged with being a priest.


34 posted on 11/24/2011 5:42:03 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Information: St. Andrew Dung-Lac & Companions

Feast Day: November 24
Born: 1785 in Vietnam
Died: 21 December 1839 in Hanoi, Vietnam
Canonized: 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II

35 posted on 11/24/2011 5:48:01 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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