Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michael Dinh-Hy Ho (Vietnamese: Micae H ình Hy) was a native of Vietnam (North Cochin-China). He was born to Christian parents, and was by profession a wealthy silk trader. Youngest of the five remaining twelve children, he was married to a Christian from another family and had two sons and three daughters. Like other Christians at the time, they practiced their faith in private. At age of 21, he obtained the fifth rank mandarin and appointed Superintendent of the Royal silk mills afterward. He was one of the few trusted officials who traveled abroad to conduct trades with other countries like Singapore and Malaysia. At the height of Christian persecution, when his eldest son requested to become a priest, he arranged to have him studied in Indonesia. After his remaining son died at the age of 12, Michael Dinh-Hy Ho declined to have his elder son returnedhome, according to Confucian traditions, citing he could not protect his own faith.