Bl. Matthew Gam

Feastday: May 11
Death: 1847

Vietnamese martyr. A sailor of Vietnam, he transported Catholic priests of the Paris Foreign Missions Society from Singapore to Vietnam. He was arrested in 1846, imprisoned, tortured, and then beheaded. Pope John Paul II canonized him in 1988.

 

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Matthew Gam Matthew Gam Death: 1847
Death: 1847