Lou Tseng-Tsiang (Chinese: 陸徵祥; 12 June 1871 – 15 January 1949) was a Chinese diplomat and a Roman Catholic priest and monk. He was twice Premier of the Republic of China and led his country’s delegation at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He sometimes used the French name René Lou in earlier life, and his monastic name was Pierre-Célestin, O.S.B..
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John Ching Hsiung Wu[a] (also John C.H. Wu; Traditional Chinese: 吳經熊; pinyin: Wu Jingxiong) (born 28 March 1899, Ningbo – 6 February 1986) was a Chinese jurist and author. Writer of the Chinese Constitution for Chiang Kai Shek, he wrote works in Chinese, English, French, and German on Christian spirituality, Chinese literature (including a translation of the Tao Te Ching) and on legal topics.
On his Tao Te Ching translation, Thomas Merton said Wu’s work was “absolutely necessary for us not only to progress but even to survive.”
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Cardinal Nguyễn Văn Thuận (1928 – 2002), political prisoner and prophet of peace.
He was a nephew of South Vietnam’s first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and of Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục. The Communist government imprisoned him for 13 years, nine in solitary confinement.
Pope Francis named him as venerable in 2017, a step on the road towards canonization.
