Saint Tôma Tran Van Thien

Saint Tôma Tran Van Thien was born around 1820 in Trung Quán, Quang Bình, Vietnam. Little is known about his early life, but it is believed that he entered the seminary of the Paris Foreign Missionary Society in his late teens in the apostolic vicariate of Cochinchina, Vietnam. During this time, Vietnam was experiencing a period of intense persecution against Catholics....