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Vatican to hear beatification evidence

Ho Chi Minh City prelate calls for witnesses for the cause of Cardinal Thuan
Vatican to hear beatification evidence
Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan cooking while in detention in Giang Xa parish in Hanoi (photo: Hanoi archdiocese)
Published: January 04, 2012 09:49 AM GMT
Updated: January 04, 2012 10:32 AM GMT

Cardinal Jean Baptiste Pham Minh Man of Ho Chi Minh City has appealed to Catholics to bear witness to the late Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan’s beatification process before a Vatican delegation in March. Cardinal Man announced on January 1 that the delegation from the Vatican-based Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace plans to visit Vietnam from March 23 to April 9 to meet and listen to witnesses with regard to Cardinal Thuan’s beatification cause, which was officially launched by the pontifical council on October 22, 2010. Cardinal Thuan was named coadjutor archbishop of Saigon archdiocese seven days before South Vietnam fell to the communist North on April 30, 1975. The communist authorities rejected his appointment and imprisoned him for 13 years, nine of them in solitary confinement in the north. Released in 1988, he was allowed to travel overseas in 1991. While abroad, he was barred from returning to Vietnam. In 1994, Blessed John Paul called him to Rome and appointed him vice-president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He later became president of the council from 1998 until he died of cancer at age 74 in 2002. He was the first Vietnamese prelate to hold a high Vatican office. “I would like to invite you all to fervently pray for our beloved cardinal’s beatification and canonization process to be completed soon,” Cardinal Man said in the announcement posted on the archdiocese’s website. He also urged priests, Religious and laypeople that knew or met the late cardinal to bear witness to his holiness and virtues before the Vatican delegation in March. He said the launch of the cause for his predecessor’s sainthood was a great honor for the Catholic Church in Vietnam, especially the archdiocese. Related reports Catholics Express Gratitude To Late Cardinal Thuan And Ancestors On All Souls´ DayPope Rejoices At Opening Of Cause For Beatification Of Vietnamese Cardinal

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