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Tự Đức's Catholic persecution

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trial and execution for being "traitor". Before departing, de Montigny opened fire at the Vietnamese port of Da Nang as a threatening warning to Tự Đức, calling for stopping the persecution. Furious, Tự Đức believed that these provocations were part of Christians' plots with foreign enemies. Feeling
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between France and Vietnam was signed on 6 June 1862 which forced Tự Đức to liberalize his religious policies. He issued an edict in late 1862 which reverted and abolished all of his previous anti-Christian orders. Catholicism was officially recognized, and worshipers gained protection. Tự Đức then
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ever in history happened in Vietnam, also was the last state-sponsored persecution of Catholic Christians in Vietnam, as a part of Tự Đức's efforts to eradicate every trace of Vietnamese Christianity. The persecution suddenly stopped in 1862 after a royal decree was passed by Tự Đức himself which
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After the French expeditionary army had invaded and seized Saigon in February 1859, Tự Đức launched a new campaign against Catholic mandarins in the government. On 15 December, he issued a new edict which demoted all Catholic officials in the government, and immediately death sentenced for those
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condemned the Tạ Văn Phụng rebellion as foolish and forbade Christians to join it. However, Tự Đức ordered Sampedro to be executed on 28 July because Tạ Văn Phụng was a Catholic. Ta Van Phung's forces later were said to be 200,000 strong. The rebellion lasted until 1865.
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The persecution began in 1848, the year of Tự Đức's inauguration. Accusing the Catholic Christians of abandoning ancestor worship, Buddha, and practicing superstitions, and fearing that they would revolt against his rule, Tự Đức labeled the Catholics as
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to negotiate trade with Vietnam, but Tự Đức ignored. The ship captain La Capricieuse previously had sent a letter to Tự Đức demanding free trade and religious freedom. At the same time, the court was going to had Christian high-ranking mandarin
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insecure, on 6 June the emperor issued a new edict to consolidate his policy over Christianity. He forced all Christians to have weddings and funerals based on traditional Vietnamese rituals, including the worship of ancestors and spirits.
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In September 1855, accusing Catholic sympathy of Le loyalists rebelled against his rule, Tự Đức ordered a new decree, all churches to be burned, all public Christian gatherings were banned, and all efforts were to destroy the
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changed his name to Lê Duy Minh, proclaimed as the emperor of Catholic Vietnam, and rallied Le loyalists against Tự Đức. Two Dominican priests joined his rebellion. In May, the Grand bishop
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On 5 August 1861, the worst persecution came to the Christians. The emperor issued a royal "dispersal" decree in order to eliminate Christianity at its root:
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Two years later, on 21 March 1851, Tự Đức ordered a new edict against the Franciscans. Vietnamese priests who did not denounce their beliefs and trample the
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Between 1848 and 1860, about 25 missionaries, 300 Vietnamese priests and 30,000 Christians died and were martyred in many ways, from suffering
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high-ranking mandarins who refuted their faith. On 17 January 1860, Tự Đức issued another decree that he would not have the
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Lives of Four Martyrs of Tonkin: Who Belonged to the Dominican Province of the Holy Rosary in the Philippine Islands
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Portrait of Spanish Bishop Pedro Almat Bình, tried and beheaded by Vietnamese authority on 1 Nov 1861 in Hai Duong.
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would face the same fates as European missionaries, being executed and cut into pieces and thrown onto rivers.
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Round up and relocate all Christians to non-Christian (Buddhist, Vietnamese folk religion,...) villages.
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The situation began to change in the next year, as Tự Đức lost three southern provinces to France. The
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last year, as Tự Đức shut down all contacts between his kingdom and the outside world.
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on their cheeks. The persecution was seen as retaliatory for the French incursion on
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The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 8, World Christianities C.1815-c.1914
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The Persecutions of Annam: A History of Christianity in Cochin China and Tonking
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Confiscate all lands owned by Christians and distribute them to non-Christians.
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Supervision of every Christian by five non-Christians in every village.
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From 1849 to 1862, during the early years of the Vietnamese emperor
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granted Catholicism legitimate freedom to practice and protection.
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All Christians are tagged in their cheeks with two words
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Destroy all Christian churches, villages and communities.
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Sculpture of Vietnamese martyrs at the Cha Tam Church,
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Index


Tự Đức
Vietnam
Tự Đức
Vietnam
anti-Christian
persecution

Ho Chi Minh City
Danang
cross
Napoleon III
Charles de Montigny
Michael Hồ Đình Hy
Tạ Văn Phụng
Hải Dương Province
Melchior Sampedro
Huế
Lovers of the Holy Cross
Treaty of Saigon
Nguyễn Trường Tộ


Théophane Vénard
Diocese of Poitiers
decapitation
death by a thousand cuts
Pedro Almató Bình
Dominican Order
Hải Dương

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