Author Topic: Autobiography of Archbishop Thuc (Read 2726 times)

Persto · « **Reply #70 on:** **Yesterday** at 02:24:39 PM »

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The South Vietnamese presidential family, (left to right) Ngo Dinh Le Thuy, 17, her mother, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, Diem's brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, Nhu's son, Ngo Dinh Nhu, President Ngo Dinh Diem, Nhu's son, Ngo Di, and youngest daughter.

Persto · « **Reply #71 on:** **Today** at 06:20:11 PM »

A photo of Ngo Dinh Kha with his family in 1905 or 1906. Left to right: Abp.Thuc @ 8 yrs old, his mother Phạm Thị Thân, with younger sibling, his father Kha, Diem @ 4 yrs old, younger sibling, and oldest son Khoi @ 10 yrs old.
The Ngo Dinh family originated in Phú Cam, a Catholic village adjacent to Huế. His ancestors had been among Vietnam's earliest Catholic converts in the 17th century.

The Ngô-Đình family suffered under the anti-Catholic persecutions of Emperors Minh Mạng and Tự Đức. In 1880, while Ngô Đình Khả (1850–1925), was studying in British Malaya, an anti-Catholic riot led by Buddhist monks almost wiped out the Ngô-Đình clan. Over 100 of the Ngô clan were "burned alive in a church including Khả's father, brothers, and sisters." Of his family, only his mother survived.

After his first wife, Anna Nguyễn Thị Thay, died childless, Khả remarried and, in a period of twenty-three years, had twelve children with his second wife, Phạm Thị Thân, nine of whom survived infancy – six sons and three daughters. As a devout Roman Catholic, Khả took his entire family to daily morning Mass and encouraged his sons to study for the priesthood. Having learned both Latin and classical Chinese, Khả strove to make sure his children were well educated in both Christian scriptures and Confucian classics. During their childhood, the children worked in the family's rice fields while studying at a French Catholic primary school (Pellerin School) in Huế, and later entered a private school started by their father.

During his Episcopal ordination in 1938 as the third Vietnamese bishop, Khả's second son, Abp. Thuc recalled these difficult times that the family and especially his father had gone through. Thục compared his father's fate to that of the biblical character Job because "Like Job, he had lost everything – dignity, fortune, health during the good fight."

In January 1925, a few days before Tet, Khả suddenly began to run a high fever and cough. He was diagnosed with severe pneumonia with complications. He died at his home on 27 January 1925.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C3%B4_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Kh%E1%BA%A3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C3%B4_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Kh%E1%BA%A3

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