Father truong buu diep biography meaning

Saigon (AsiaNews) – “I live among my flock and I will die among them. I will not go anywhere,” said Father François Xavier Truong Buu Diep, who was killed by the Communists on 12 March 1946 in Tac Say, in southern Vietnam, almost 2,000 kilometres from the capital of Hanoi, along with 30 other Catholics.

Now almost 65 years later he is venerated by Catholics, Protestants and non-believers, who line up every year before his tomb to pray, ask for a blessing or seek healing.

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Father Diep was born in 1897 and was ordained in 1924, after completing studies at Phnom Penh Major Seminary in Cambodia. During his ministry in Vietnam, the country was torn apart by war. In that period the Việt Minh came down harshly on the country’s Catholic community. 

When he and 30 lay Catholics were captured by enemy forces, they are held in a rice paddy storehouse.

Later the priest's body was found in a nearby pond, but the auth