Feast Day: November 24
Two Physicians –Martyrs and Saints of Indochina (Vietnam)
SAINT ANTHONY NAM-QUYNH
Saint Anthony was a physician in Vietnam, who also served as a catechist for the Faith. He worked to help the missionaries of the Paris Foreign Mission Society. Arrested in 1838, he spent two years in prison for associating with foreign missionaries. There, between bouts of torture and abuse, he used his medical skills to help fellow prisoners. He was then strangled to death. He was canonized in 1988.
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1457
SAINT SIMON HOA DAC PHAN
In Nhu Ly near Hue, an elderly catholic doctor named Simon Hoa was captured and executed. He had been sheltering a missionary named Charles Delamotte, whom the villagers had pleaded with him to send away. The village was also supposed to erect a shrine for the state-cult, which the doctor also opposed. His status and age protected him from being arrested until 1840, when he was put on trial and the judge pleaded (due to his status in Vietnamese society as both an elder and a doctor) with him to publicly recant; when he refused he was publicly executed.
