Saint Augustin Nguyễn Văn Mới

Saint Augustine Nguyễn Văn Mới (born c. 1806 in Nam Định Province, Vietnam; died December 19, 1839, in Cổ Mễ, Bắc Ninh Province, Vietnam) was a martyr and a saint of the Catholic Church. Augustine Nguyễn Văn Mới was born into a non-Christian family. At the age of 31, he was baptized by Father Peter Nguyễn Văn Tự and became a Dominican tertiary. During the persecutions, attempts were made to force him to trample on a cross, but they were unsuccessful. The mandarin ordered soldiers to whip and exile him. The king disapproved of this sentence, and it was changed to the death penalty. Augustine Nguyễn Văn Mới was executed by strangulation on December 19, 1839. His feast day is November 24, as part of the group of 117 Vietnamese Martyrs. He was beatified on May 27, 1900, by Leo XIII and canonized by John Paul II on June 19, 1988, as one of the 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.