Nguyễn Văn Thuận [SEP] canonization status
Nguyễn Văn Thuận
Phanxicô Xaviê Nguyễn Văn Thuận or Francis-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận (; 17 April 1928 – 16 September 2002), was a Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. He was a nephew of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and of Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục.
Pope Francis named him as Venerable on 4 May 2017, a significant step on the road towards canonization.
Early life.
Thuận was born in Huế in 1928, the son of Nguyễn Văn Ấm and Elizabeth Ngô
of seemingly utter hopelessness, the fact that he could listen and speak to God became for him an increasing power of hope, which enabled him, after his release, to become for people all over the world a witness to hope—to that great hope which does not wane even in the nights of solitude.
Dr. Waldery Hilgeman is Postulator of the Cause for Thuận's canonization. 
Writings.
- François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận. "Five Loaves & Two Fish" 1969
- François-Xavier Nguyễn