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The proto-cathedral after the fire in 2012. Our Lady of La Vang Parish (Vietnamese: Giáo Xứ Đức Mẹ La Vang, Spanish: Iglesia Católica Nuestra Señora de La Vang), formerly Saint Patrick Proto-Cathedral Parish, is a Vietnamese national parish and former cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California.
With over 180,000 Vietnamese residents, (approximately 10.6% of the population as of the 2010 U.S. Census), San Jose has more Vietnamese residents than any single city outside of Vietnam. [ 2 ] Vietnamese cuisine restaurants.
The Marian Days (Vietnamese: Đại hội Thánh Mẫu, officially Ngày Thánh Mẫu [4]) is the main festival and pilgrimage for Vietnamese American Roman Catholics. The annual event in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary has taken place the first weekend in August since 1978 on the 28-acre (110,000 m 2 ) campus of the Congregation of the Mother ...
Vietnamese Americans vary in income level, with some being upper-class while others, particular those who came later, are working-class. Vietnamese Americans are mainly concentrated in metropolitan areas in the West, including Orange County, California , San Jose, California , and Houston, Texas .
A San Jose community has recently unveiled a monument that honors the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) of South Vietnamese soldiers who fought invading northern soldiers and defended the ...
Located in the Tenderloin district where 2,000 of the city's 13,000 Vietnamese-American residents live, the two-block stretch is more than 80% Vietnamese-owned. Unlike San Jose, with its larger ethnic Vietnamese population, the ethnic Chinese from Vietnam are well represented in San Francisco due to self-segregation.
Viet Mercury (Vietnamese: Việt Mercury) was a Vietnamese-language newspaper serving the Vietnamese American community in San Jose and the surrounding Silicon Valley area in California. It was published weekly by the San Jose Mercury News from 1999 to 2005; it also published daily for a time.
Others that participated were some Vietnamese Americans from San Jose. Mass vigils with wavings of South Vietnamese flags and demonstrations (sometimes peaceful and sometimes coming close to a riot), in front of the store ensued. For example, an egg was tossed at Tran as he was entering his store.