SAINT OF THE DAY

June 16

VIETNAMESE MARTYRS

In the city of Ngoc Cuc of Tonkin, in what is now Vietnam, the sainted martyrs Dominic Nguyen, (physician), Dominic Nhi, Dominic Mao, Vincent and Andrew Tuong (farmers), were seized at the same time on account of their Christian faith, and racked by many torments in prison, were in the end decapitated under the emperor Tu-Doc.