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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, November 24th, 2020. This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we are preparing for Thanksgiving by talking about some incredible saints that

are celebrating their feast days today. Most remarkably,

each saint this week was asked to give their life for Jesus Christ because they knew,

you can take everything else away from me. But what matters the most, my most prized

possession is my relationship with Jesus Christ, which can never be taken from me.

Now, yesterday we were in Mexico with Blessed Miguel Pro. Today, we are going around the world

to the country of Vietnam. Vietnam, of course, is in the Southeast Asia. Now, for a long time,

Christianity was not introduced to Vietnam.

In the 1500s, missionaries began to bring it, but over a hundred years later, when the

Jesuits arrived, Christianity began to finally take root. Of course, when this happened,

as happened in many other countries, the emperor

and other leaders began to worry. They worried that this was a European influence, that people

would revolt, and so they started to persecute and kill the Christians. But once again, we know whether an area has been Christian for a long

time or not very long at all. Once Jesus unites his heart with his followers and his disciples,

he changes their lives. And we see over and over again, people willing to give up everything even their life but refusing to let go

of their relationship with Jesus Christ. So today we are celebrating the martyrdom of St. Andrew Dung

Locke and over 117 other martyrs that died with him in Vietnam.

Now, because records aren't very good, we don't know much about their lives,

but we do have one incredible story of what happened during this time of persecution in Vietnam.

So this was at the end of the 1700s, the beginning of the

1800s. There were various small communities of Christians, and they knew that the persecution was

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