January 7th

Saint Joseph Tuân

Saint · Common of Martyrs · Ấp Bái, Vietnam · d. 1862

In the village of Ấp Bái in Tonkin, Saint Joseph Tuân, martyr, who was a father of a family and a farmer. When he had knelt and prayed before the cross that he had been ordered to trample, he was beheaded under the emperor Tự Đức.

Latin Original

In vico Az Bái in Tunquíno, sancti Ioséphi T’uàn, mártyris, qui, paterfamilias et agrícola, cum ante crucem, quam calcáre iussus erat, genufléxus orávit, decollátus est sub imperatóre T’u Düc.