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Saint Francis Xavier Hà Trọng Mậu (born c. 1790 in Kẻ Riền, Thái Bình Province, Vietnam; died December 19, 1839, in Cổ Mễ, Bắc Ninh Province, Vietnam) was a catechist, a Dominican tertiary, a martyr, and a saint of the Catholic Church. Francis Xavier Hà Trọng Mậu worked as a catechist. After the Dominican priest Father Peter Nguyễn Văn Tự was arrested, Mậu visited him in prison and was subsequently arrested himself. While in prison, he and four others became Dominican tertiaries. He was strangled on December 19, 1839. 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, among the 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.