Sts. Paul Mi and Peter Truat were among the hundreds of thousands of martyrs who were persecuted for their faith in Vietnam.

Peter was a catechist, and Paul was a convert who joined a missionary group to help spread the faith in Vietnam—they were both killed by strangulation. The painting shown here depicts these two saints being martyred with St. Peter Duong (whose feast day was Dec. 10) and is used with permission from Catholic.org.

Another Vietnamese martyr honored tomorrow—St. Augustine Moi—was a manual laborer who was arrested during a persecution and commanded to trample a crucifix. He refused and was killed.

Between 150,000 and 300,000 Christians were killed for their faith in Vietnam in several waves of persecutions. Some were missionaries who were killed in the 17th century, others were killed in the last 200 years because of political movements that were at odds with the faith. These martyrs are all honored together on Nov. 24, and a number of them have their own feast days throughout the calendar.

Sts. Paul Mi and Peter Truat, you were killed for your faithfulness with thousands of other Vietnamese people, pray for us!