Honorific Prefix: | Saint |
Bernard Vu Van Due | |
Birth Date: | 1755 |
Feast Day: | 1 August |
Venerated In: | Roman Catholic Church |
Birth Place: | Vietnam |
Death Place: | Vietnam |
Titles: | Martyr |
Canonized Date: | 19 June 1988 |
Canonized Place: | Vatican City |
Canonized By: | Pope John Paul II |
Bernard Due Van Vu, (Vietnamese: Thánh Bênađô Vũ Văn Duệ) (1755 - 1 August 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.[1]