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Today is the Memorial of Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Priest, & Companions, Martyrs (martyred 1745-1862, A.K.A. the Martyrs of Vietnam; of Tonkin; of Annam; of Indochina), martyred under a variety of regimes & situations: Martyrs-link ūnus, Martyrs-link duo, & Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:

Andrew Dũng-Lạc was one of one hundred seventeen [persons] martyred in Vietnam between 1820 & 1862. Members of this group were beatified on four different occasions between 1900 & 1951. All we canonized by (Pope) St. John Paul II (22 October).

Quoth the Holy Family bulletin:

St. Andrew Dũng-Lạc & one hundred seventeen others gave their lives during several persecutions of the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries in Vietnam. Despite extreme tortures they had to endure, they heroically witnessed to the faith. They gave their lives that the Gospel might take root & spread in Vietnam.

Scripture of the Day
Personal Reading
The Book of Sirach, chapter fifty, verses twenty-five thru twenty-nine & chapter fifty-one, verses nine thru thirty (end).

Mass Readings
The Book of Daniel, chapter two, verses thirty-one thru forty-five;
The Book of Daniel, chapter three, verses fifty-seven thru sixty-one;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter twenty-one, verses five thru eleven;

or, for the Memorial,
The Book of Sirach, chapter fifty-one, verses one thru eight;
Psalm One Hundred Twenty-six, verse five;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter ten, verses twenty-eight thru thirty-three.

Commentary: Your eagle eyes do not deceive you, dear reader: the First Reading & Gospel for Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc & Companions' Memorial are the same as for Bl. Miguel Agustín Pro's Memorial yesterday; only the psalm is different. Red martyrdom is the same down through the ages.