Saint Joseph Marchand

Joseph Marchand (1803–1835) was born in Passavant, in eastern France, and joined the Paris Foreign Missions Society. Ordained in 1829, he was sent to Vietnam, where he ministered to Catholics in the south during the persecution of Emperor Minh Mang. In 1835 he was captured in Saigon, taken north to Huế in a cage and cruelly tortured to make him renounce his faith. He remained faithful and was executed on November 30, 1835.

Saint John Paul II canonized him in 1988 with Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and the other Vietnamese martyrs, who are celebrated together on November 24.