The Miracle of Hope - Vanchau Andre Nguyen

 

Written by a personal friend of Cardinal Thuan, this moving biographycontaining over 70 photographs and writing excerptschronicles the life of the man Pope John Paul II said was marked by a heroic configuration with Christ on the cross. From a prisoner in a communist jail cell to a leader of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Rome, Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan remained a man of unshakable faith and undying hope.

In 1975, Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan was arrested by the Communist government of Vietnam and imprisoned for thirteen years, nine of them in solitary confinement, and finally exiled from Vietnam in 1991. He continued to proclaim the gospel of peace and freedom, justice and human dignity until his death in 2002. Destined to become contemporary classics, Van Thuan's writings have inspired hope in millions. His best selling works include Testimony of Hope and The Road of Hope.