Saint Dominic Trạch

Saint Dominic Trạch (Đoài) (born c. 1792 in Ngoại Vối, Nam Định Province, Vietnam – died September 18, 1840, in Bảy Mẫu, Vietnam) was a Dominican friar, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church. Dominic Trạch was born in 1792 or 1793 in Ngoại Vối, Nam Định Province. He was ordained a priest at the age of approximately 30. The following year, he entered the Dominican Order. He worked in Quần Cống and later at the seminary in Lục Thuỷ. During a period of persecution, he was arrested in Ngọc Cục, but local Catholics raised money for his ransom, and he was released. He was imprisoned again on April 11, 1840. Because he refused to trample on the cross, he was executed on September 18, 1840. His feast day is November 24, as part of the group of the 117 Vietnamese Martyrs. He was beatified on May 27, 1900, by Pope Leo XIII and canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 19, 1988, as one of the 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.