(blessed Andrew of Phu Yen (1624 – 26 July 1644) is known as the “Protomartyr of Vietnam”)
(baptized in 1641, he was a dedicated assistant to Jesuit missionaries and was thus arrested in the purge of Christians launched in 1644)
(after refusing to abjure the faith, he was put to death in Ke Kham)
(‘andrew’ was beatified by “Pope John Paul II” on “5 March 2000”)
(his ‘feast day’ is “July 26”)