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Blessed Nicholas Bunkerd Kitbamrung, also known as Benedikto Chunkim, Benedikto Xunkim, Nikholas Buykoet Krisbamrung, Nikola Bunkerd Kitbamrung, was a Roman Catholic Priest ordained in 1926, from Thailand. He was born on 28 February 1895 in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. He is the first Martyr Priest from Thailand. He worked for bringing the catholics back to faith in Vietnam from 1930 to 1937. During the French, Indochina war he was accused of spying for French and was sentenced 10 years imprisonment in 1941, where he baptised 68 prison companions and preached Gospel. He died of Tuberculosis, which he contracted in the prison, on 12 January 1944 of tuberculosis at Bangkok, Thailand. He was Venerated by Pope John Paul II on 27 January 2000 as Martyr and Beatified at Saint Peter‘s Square, Rome, Italy on 5 March 2000.