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Born into a modest family, against a background of endless personal trial, Marcel Van (1928-1959) wished to become a priest. He entered the Redemptorist monastery in Hanoi. Combining an extreme sensitivity with an insane but saint-like audacity, his life was spent in silence against a backcloth of political turmoil until his death in a North Vietnamese prison-camp.