Cardinal van thuan relic card of saints

A laminated holy card featuring a portrait of Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan.

On the evening of 12 June , the Symposium on the Servant of God, Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân, was held in Petropolis, Brazil.

It comes packaged with a matching " x " LAMINATED PRAYER CARD making it a perfect gift for any occasion, Baptism, First Holy Communion, Confirmation and.

Happy feast of Venerable Nguyen Van Thuan, Vietnamese Cardinal who suffered 9 years of solitary confinement under the communist govt.

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It comes packaged with a matching " x " LAMINATED PRAYER CARD making it a perfect gift for any occasion, Baptism, First Holy Communion, Confirmation and..

Cardinal Van Thuan was arrested in 1975 and spent 13 years in prison, nine of them in solitary confinement in Hanoi.

He used his time not only for personal prayer but also to write a reflection that continues to inspire.

Van Thuan had been appointed as Coadjutor Archbishop of Saigon just seven days before South Vietnam fell to the Communist North in 1975.

He was arrested and spent 13 years in prison, nine of them in solitary confinement in Hanoi.

Cardinal Van Thuan's example helps us see the mystery of Gethsemane in Christian prayer, a mystery that welcomes those difficult blessings God wants us to have.

Released in 1988, Pope John Paul II called him to Rome, where he eventually became president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace until his death in 2002.

The legacy the cardinal left us in the form of his volume, ‘The Road of Hope – A Gospel from Prison’, is for us all a map for meaningful prayer and meditation.

In the book we read: “Saints do not become saints through acts of prophecy or performance of miracles. They do nothing extraordinary at all, other than faithfully carrying out their ordinary duties.”