# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcel-nguyen-tan-van
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:16:38.667Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcel-nguyen-tan-van"
name: "Marcel Nguyễn Tân Văn"
slug: "marcel-nguyen-tan-van"
description: "Marcel Van, or Marcel Nguyễn Tân Văn, was a Vietnamese Redemptorist brother. During his life, he reported receiving locutions and visions from Thérèse of Lisieux, Jesus Christ, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. He is called \"The Apostle of Love\", continuing the teachings of Therese of Lisieux's \"Little Way.\" He died in a North Vietnam internment camp, and his cause for beatification was opened in 1997 by archbishop Nguyễn Văn Thuận. Van called himself \"Little brother of the Christ Child\"."
tagline: "Vietnamese Catholic religious servant (1928-1959)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1928-03-15"
deathDate: "1959-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.564185333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Nguy%E1%BB%85n_T%C3%A2n_V%C4%83n"
    title: "Marcel Nguyễn Tân Văn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Nguy%E1%BB%85n_T%C3%A2n_V%C4%83n"
    title: "Marcel Nguyễn Tân Văn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Van"
    title: "Marcel Van"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Nguy%E1%BB%85n_T%C3%A2n_V%C4%83n"
    title: "Marcel Nguyễn Tân Văn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Nguy%E1%BB%85n_T%C3%A2n_V%C4%83n"
    title: "Marcel Nguyễn Tân Văn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Van"
    title: "Marcel Van"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Van"
    title: "Marcel Van"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1146459"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump