Saint Longinus was a Roman soldier who pierced Jesus in his side with the "Holy Lance" during the Crucifixion. Saint Longinus testified "This man certainly was the Son of God." According to the Tradition, he was said to have converted to Christianity after the Crucifixion, and is venerated as a martyr saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. His feast day is kept on 15 March in the Roman Martyrology, which mentions him, without any indication of martyrdom, in the following terms: "At Jerusalem, commemoration of Saint Longinus, who is venerated as the soldier opening the side of the crucified Lord with a lance".
Saint Joseph of Arimathea was, according to all four canonical gospels, the man who assumed responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion. He is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and some Protestant churches. Many Christians interpret Joseph's role as fulfilling Isaiah's prediction that the grave of the "Suffering Servant" would be with a rich man (Isaiah 53:9), assuming that Isaiah was referring to the Messiah. The traditional Roman calendar marked his feast day on 17 March, but he is now listed, along with Saint Nicodemus, on 31 August in the Martyrologium Romanum. Eastern Orthodox churches commemorate him on the Third Sunday of Pascha and on 31 July, the date shared by Lutheran churches.
Saint Domingo Hanh Van Nguyen (†1838) is a Martyr Saint of Vietnam who served his countrymen as a Dominican priest. During the ongoing persecution of Catholics under the Vietnamese emperor Minh Mang, Father Hanh was arrested together with a recently excommunicated elderly priest named Pham Van Duyet. In response to a judge who was pressuring them to trample upon a cross, Father Hanh asked him by way of comparison whether he thought the emperor would want to trample upon the remains of his own ancestors. Father Hanh added, "I would never trample over the picture of God I have worshiped." In contrast to Father Hanh, the excommunicated priest Pham Van Duyet agreed to trample repeatedly on the cross. Appalled by this, Father Hanh rebuked him, asking, "How dare you betray God for your short remaining time of life?" The other priest dismissed this reproach with contempt, and was released by the authorities. After suffering torture, Father Hanh was executed on August 1, 1838.
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