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Michael Hồ Đình Hy
Vietnamese mandarin official, Catholic martyr
Michael Hồ Đình Hy (胡廷僖; 1808– 22 May 1857) was a Vietnamese mandarin official who was martyred for his Roman Catholic belief during the persecutions by Emperor Tự Đức.[1] He was canonized in 1988 along with another 116 Vietnamese Martyrs.[2]
Life
Hồ Đình Hy was born to Christian parents in Cochinchina, and was by profession a wealthy silk trader.
The youngest of the five remaining twelve children, he was married to a Christian from another family and had two sons and three daughters.
Muyo jean de dieu biography of michael
Like other Christians at the time, they practiced their faith in private. At age 21, he obtained the fifth rank mandarin and appointed Superintendent of the royal silk mills afterwards. He was one of the few trusted officials who traveled abroad to conduct trades with other countries like Singapore and Malaysia.
At the height of Christian persecution, when his eldest son requested to become a priest, he arran