Cardinal Van Thuan of Vietnam soon be beatified (SARI foreign CHURCH NEWS) One step away from Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (17 April 1928-16 September 2002) of Vietnam will be beatified. Dated July 5, 2013, as reported by Vatican Radio, Vicar of the Diocese of Rome, Cardinal Agostino Vallini takes, led the closing session of the diocesan process of beatification in the Lateran Palace. Session participants received by July 6, Francis Pope and Thanksgiving Mass will be held at Thuận titular church in Rome, Santa Maria della Scala. Dated 24 April 1975, Thuận appointed coadjutor archbishop of Saigon. He was captured by the Vietnamese communist government and held in "reeducation camps" for 13 years, nine of them in solitary confinement. President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in 1998-2002 it was named a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001. - Translation by Google
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