| 6 February |
• yesterday • tomorrow |
| Memorial of Saint Paul Miki and Companions |
Son of Giuseppina Schiavone and Aniello Fusco, the eldest of five children in a pious peasant family. The couple had been unable to have children until a visit to the relics of Saint Alphonsus Maria d' Liguori; there they received the message that they would have a son, name him Alfonso, and that he would led the life of a beati. Confirmed and received his first Communion at age seven, and at eleven he announced his intent to become a priest. Entered the seminary of Nocera dei Pagani on 5 November 1850. Ordained 29 September 1863.
Noted for his devotion to the liturgy, and as a gentle, paternal confessor. In September of 1878, he, Maddalena Caputo of Angri (Sister Crocifissa), and three young women formed what would become the Congregation of the Baptistine Sisters of the Nazarene (Baptistine Sisters), devoted to the care and education of poor orphans, abandoned children, and youth at risk; their first house was soon known as the Little House of Providence.
Along with the usual problems of more needs than resources, the new congregation faced serveral internal trials. False accusations were made about Father Alfonso, and Bishop Vitagliano tried to remove him as the congregation's director. The daughter house in Rome tried to break away from the congregation, even locking the doors to the house when Alfonso came to see them. At one point, Cardinal Respighi, Vicar of Rome, recommended that he resign for the good of the congregation. He was, however, vindicated in the end, remained as director, and saw the congregation through it's early, difficult years. Today they work in fifteen countries around the world.
23 March 1839 in Angri, Salerno, diocese of Nocera-Sarno, Italy
6 February 1910 in Angri, Salerno, Italy of natural causes/p>
• 7 October 2001 by Pope John Paul II
• the beatification miracle involved the healing of a child of "malaria infantile cerebral, with prolonged coma and status epilepticus, with pneumonia and septicaemia; with severe blood malarial parasitemia, persistent despite medical therapies" over the night of 2 to 3 February 1998 in the diocese of Ndola, Zambia through the intercession of Saint Alfonso
• 16 October 2016 by Pope Francis in Rome, Italy
• the canonization miracle involved the healing of a Baptistine nun of "sub-arachnoid haemorrhage with tetraventricular flooding and hydrocephalus, secondary and ruptured posterior communicating artery aneurysms" on 25 October 2009 through the intercession of Saint Alfonso
Congregation of the Baptistine Sisters of the Nazarene
From heaven I will not forget you. I will pray for you always. – Blessed Alfonso's dying words to the Sisters
The Work is God's; I am His worker; God began it. For God I shall continue it. God wanted this Work done. He obliged me to do it. God will provide. – Blessed Alfonso
My daughters, what do you think you have come to the Institute for? You have come here to form a family, a family of saints. This is the scope of our lives to sanctify ourselves through love. – Blessed Alfonso
Let us become saints, following Jesus closely. Daughters, if you live in poverty, in chastity and in obedience, you will shine like the stars up in the heavens. – Blessed Alfonso
Don't worry, my daughters. I am going to Jesus now and He will worry about us! – Blessed Alfonso when the congregation ran out of everything
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-alfonso-maria-fusco/
Dora, Dorothea
Apochryphal martyr whose story has been beautifully told, and was popular for many years. Having made a personal vow of virginity, she refused to marry, or to sacrifice to idols. She was tried, tortured, and sentenced to death for her faith by the prefect Sapricius as part of the persecutions of Diocletian. The pagan lawyer Theophilus said to her in mockery, "Bride of Christ, send me some fruits from your bridegroom's garden." Before she was executed, she sent him, by a six-year-old boy who is thought to have been an angel, her headress which had the fragrance of roses and fruits. Seeing this gift, and the miraculous messenger who brought them, Theophilus converted, and was martyred himself. This story has been variously enlarged through the years. In some places, trees are blessed on her feast day because of her connection with a blooming, fruitful miracle.
beheaded with a sword on 6 February 311 in Caesarea Mazaca, Cappodocia (modern day Kayseri, Turkey)
• brewers
• brides
• florists
• gardeners
• midwives
• newlyweds
• Pescia, Italy
• crown of flowers
• crown of roses
• crowned with flowers and surrounded by stars as she kneels before the executioner
• crowned with palm and flower basket, surrounded by stars
• crowned and carrying a flower basket
• in an orchard
• with the Christ-child in an apple tree
• leading the Christ-child by the hand
• maiden carrying a basket of fruit and flowers, especially roses
• roses
• veiled, with flowers in her lap
• veiled, holding apples from heaven on a branch
• with a basket of fruit and the Christ-child riding a hobby horse
• with an angel and wreath of flowers
• with an angel carrying a basket of flowers
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-dorothy-of-caesarea/
• Apostle of Belgium
• Apostle of Flanders
• Amand of Belgium
• Amand of Elnone
• Amand of France
• Amandus, Amantius, Amatius
Lived some time as a hermit, then became a monk at age 20 at the Abbey of Saint Martin at Tours, France. When he took the cowl, his family tried to kidnap him to bring him home for "deprogramming", but failed. Given a commission to wander and preach, he evangelized in France, Flanders, Carinthia, Gascony, and Germany, sometimes getting beaten by the locals for his trouble. Bishop of Maastricht, Netherlands in 649. Founded several monasteries and convents. Abbot of the monastery at Elnone-en-Pevele, France. Friend and spiritual director of Saint Humbert of Pelagius, and was assisted in his work by Saint Acharius. In his declining years he retired to Elnon Abbey, where he was the spiritual teacher of Saint Chrodobald of Marchiennes, and ended his days as a prayerful monk. His association with brewers and vintners and related fields comes from spending so much time preaching and teaching in beer-making and wine-making regions.
c.584 at Poitou, France
c.679 in the monastery at Elnone-en-Pevele (modern Saint-Amand-les-Eaux), France
• against diseases of cattle
• against fever
• against paralysis
• against rheumatism
• against seizures
• against skin diseases
• against vision problems
• Boy Scouts
• bar staff, barkeepers, bartenders
• brewers
• grocers
• hotel keepers, innkeepers
• merchants
• pharmacists, druggists
• vinegar makers
• vine growers, vintners, wine-makers
• wine merchants
• 5 cities
• holding a church
• with a dragon (the sin and evil he drove out by his work)
• banner • chair • church • flag
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-amand-of-maastricht/
• Peter Baptist Blasquez
• Pietro Battista Blasquez
Born to the Castillian nobility, Pedro studied at the University of Salamanca and then joined the Franciscans in 1542. Ordained a priest, he taught philosophy and theology, and served as superior of several Franciscan communities. Feeling a call to missionary work, in 1580 he was sent to Mexico where he founded several communities, and then in 1583 he was dispatched to the Philippines.
In 1593, to replace the work of Jesuits who had been expelled from the country in 1590, he and five other friars were sent to Japan where they lived in poverty, cared for lepers, preached the faith, and built schools, churches, convents and hospitals. Father Pedro became known as a miracle worker.
A number of parties, including Buddhist bonzes, European traders, and anti-western Japanese, pushed for a government persecution of these missionaries. The emperor began to fear that missionaries were a prelude to invasion by the West, and ordered them all imprisoned. Arrested in different places, they were all transferred to Nagasaki where they were abused and executed. His last known act was praying for his persecutors. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
1542 in San Esteban del Valle, Avila, Castille (in modern Spain)
• crucified on 5 February 1597 on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan
• his body reported incorrupt after two months exposure to the elements
• local Christians reported seeing Father Pedro celebrating Mass long after his death
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
• Caceres, Philippines, archdiocese of
• Japan
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-pedro-bautista-blasquez-y-blasquez/
• Felipe las Casas Martínez
• Philip de la Casas
• Philip of Jesus
Philip's parents had immigrated from Illescas, Spain to Mexico City, and the boy was born in the New World. It was a pious family; two of his brothers entered the Augustinians, and one was martyred.
He joined the Reformed Franciscan Convent of Santa Barbara in Pueblo, Mexico in his early teens, but left after a year. With his father's assistance, Philip sailed to Manila in the Philippines to start an overseas trading buiness. However, he continued to feel the call to religious life, and on 22 May 1594 he entered the Franciscan Convent of Our Lady of the Angels in Manila, becoming a friar, and working with the sick.At his family's request, he was returned to Mexico in 1596 to be consecrated a bishop, but the ship was blown off course and wrecked on a reef on the coast of Japan; during the storm, Philip had a vision of a white cross hanging above Japan, a cross which became blood red. The locals impounded the ship's cargo and imprisoned the crew. In order to keep the cargo from Philip's ship, the warlord Taikosama accused Philip and his crew of piracy and spying for the king of Spain preparatory to an invasion. Philip and several other Christians were placed under house arrest at Miako for several weeks, and then condemned to death. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
1575 in Mexico as Philip de al Casas
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
• Mexico City, Mexico, city of
• Mexico City, Mexico, archdiocese of
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-felipe-de-jesus/
Foster, Gaston, Gastone, Vaat, Vedast, Vedasto, Vedastus
• 2 January (discovery of relics)
• 7 February (enshrinement of relics)
• 15 July (translation of relics in Cambrai)
• 1 October (translation of relics)
Hermit. Worked with Saint Remigius to convert the Franks. Priest. Instructed King Clovis in the faith. His miraculous healing of the blind helped convince some of Clovis's pagan court of the power of God (and led to Vaast's patronage against eye trouble). First bishop of Arras, France in 499. Bishop of Cambrai, France c.510. On the night he died, the locals saw a luminous cloud ascend from his house, apparently carrying away Vaast's soul.
c.453 at Limoges, France
539-540 at Arras, France of natural causes
• against eye diseases
• children
• children late learning to walk
• disabled people
• Arras, France, city of
• Arras, Boulogne and Saint-Omer, France, diocese of
• bishop raising to life a goose which a wolf has brought to him
• wolf bringing a goose to a bishop; Vaast will use it to feed the poor
• with a child or children at his feet (represents the people brought to the faith in his area)
• chasing a bear out of a church (represents replacing a rough paganism with Christianity)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-vaast-of-arras/
Mateo Correa
21 May as one of the Martyrs of the Mexican Revolution
Attended the seminary at Zacatecas, Mexico on a scholarship, beginning 12 January 1881. Ordained on 20 August 1893. Parish priest, assigned to Concepcion de Oro, Mexico from 1898 to 1905. Close friend of the Pro-Juarez family, he baptized Humberto Pro, and gave First Communion to Blessed Miguel Pro. Re-assigned to Colotlan, Mexico from 1908 to 1910. Following the government's repression of the Church in 1910, he went into hiding. Assigned to Valparaiso, Mexico in 1926.
Arrested while en route to a sick call; when he saw the soldiers approaching, he quickly swallowed the host to prevent desecration. Accused of being part of the armed Cristero rebellion, he was jailed in Zacatecas, and then in Durango, Mexico. While in jail, he heard confessions from other prisoners. When the jail's commander, General Ortiz, demanded to know what the condemned men had said, Father Mateo refused. Martyred for being a priest, and for refusing to break the seal of the confessional.
23 July 1866 at Tepechitlán, Zacatecas, Mexico
shot on 6 February 1927 on the outskirts of Durango City, Durango, Mexico
21 May 2000 by Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee of Mexico
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-mateo-correa-magallanes/
Born wealthy, the son of the military leader Miki Handayu. Paul felt a call to religous life from his youth. Jesuit in 1580, educated at the Jesuit college at Azuchi and Takatsuki. Successful evangelist. When the political climate became hostile to Christianity, he decided to continue his ministry, was soon arrested. On his way to martydom, he and other imprisoned Christians were marched 600 miles so they could be abused by, and be a lesson to, their countrymen; they sang the Te Deum on the way. His last sermon was delivered from the cross. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
1562 at Tsunokuni, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
The only reason for my being killed is that I have taught the doctrine of Christ. I thank God it is for this reason that I die. I believe that I am telling the truth before I die. I know you believe me and I want to say to you all once again: Ask Christ to help you become happy. I obey Christ. After Christ’s example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall on my fellow men as a fruitful rain. – Saint Paul Miki
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-paul-miki/
• Aline Bonzel
• Maria Theresia
• Regina Christine Wilhelmine Bonzel
Franciscan tertiary by age 20. She wanted to enter religious life, but her family strongly opposed it. With eight other women she took the veil as part of the new community of Sisters of Saint Francis of Perpetual Adoration, and became its director, taking the name Mother Mary Teresa. By the time of her death the order had sisters all over the world, and had established schools, hospitals, and orphanages.
17 September 1830 at Olpe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany as Aline Bonzel
6 February 1905 at Olpe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany of natural causes
• 10 November 2013 by Pope Francis
• the beatification recognition was celebrated at the cathedral of Paderborn, Germany with Cardinal Angelo Amato presiding
• her beatification miracle involved the cure of a four-year-old boy in Colorado Springs, Colorado
To become all to all. - Mother Mary's personal motto
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-mary-teresa-bonzel/
Gonsalo, Gonsalvo, Gonzalo, Gonçalo
His father was a Portugese soldier and immigrant to India, his mother an Indian convert. Gundisalvus grew up a Christian, and served as a lay catechist, working for the Jesuits. Successful businessman in Japan and Macao. Became an Alcantarine Franciscan lay brother in Manila in the Philippines in 1591. Returned to Japan with Saint Peter Baptist to act as interpreter. He stuttered when speaking Portuguese, but when arrested for his faith, he was flawless in Japanese when facing his judges. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
1556 at Bassein, Maharashtra, India
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
• Bombay, India, archdiocese of
• Bombay, India, city of
• East Indians
• Indian Catholic Youth Movement
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-gundisalvus-garcia/
• Elian of Homs
• Ellien, Julian
• 7 February (Syrian Orthodox calendar)
• 7 March (Syrian Orthodox calendar)
• 29 December (Armenian Orthodox calendar)
The son of a senior officer in the imperial Roman army, Elian trained as a physician. He was a convert to Christianity, baptized by Saint Silvanus of Emesa. He developed a reputation of healing by prayer as much as by medicine, and treated the poor sick for free. Caught ministering to Christians awaiting execution, Elian was ordered to renounce the faith; he refused. To change his mind, Elian was imprisoned and tortured for several months; when he still refused, he was executed by his father. Martyr.
Emesa, Phoenicia (modern Homs, Syria)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-elian-of-emesa/
Mael, Melchno, Melis
Son of Conis and Saint Darerca, one of their nineteen children. Brother of Saint Melchu. Nephew of Saint Patrick. Travelled with Patrick and helped evangelize Ireland. Ordained bishop of Ardagh, Ireland by Patrick. Reputed to have professed Saint Brigid of Ireland as a nun. He supported himself by working with his hands, and gave to the poor anything beyond the bare minimum.
Because Mel lived with his aunt, Lupait, and helped on her farm, slanderous gossip developed about their relationship. Patrick came to investigate. To prove that God was on their side, Mel and Lupait each prayed for help and then performed a miracle - Mel plowed up a live fish from the farm land, and Lupait packed around a live coal without being burned.
British Isles
c.489 of natural causes
• Ardagh, Ireland, city of
• Ardagh, Ireland, diocese of
• Ardagh and Clonmacnois, Ireland, diocese of
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-mel-of-ardagh/
As a child, Francesco would put on puppet shows for other kids. With his mother, he would visit and help the poor and sick in his city. Francesco studied in Bergamo, Italy, and ordained as a priest in 1875. Later that year, while in Rome, Italy to celebate the Jubilee, he had a vision of women continually adoring the Blessed Sacrament. Back in Bergamo he began teaching in the seminary by day, running an evening school for the poor of his parish by night. On 15 December 1882 he realized the fulfillment of his vision when he helped found the Sisters Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament in Bergamo. Transferred to the diocese of Cremona, Italy on 4 April 1889 where the Sisters cotninue their work of adoring Christ in the Eucharist and in their care for their poor.
14 April 1853 in Milan, Italy
6 February 1913 in Rivolta d'Adda, Cremona, Italy of natural causes
14 October 2018 by Pope Francis at Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-francesco-spinelli/
Born to wealthy parents; they were childless for many years but conceived Angelus after a pilgrimage and prayers for the intercession of Michael the Archangel. Educated by his uncle, the Benedictine abbot of Cornaclano at Furci, Italy. Entered the Augustinian hermits at Vasto, Italy in 1266. Priest. Studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France for five years. Taught theology at the Augustinian school in Naples, Italy. Noted theologian and preacher, known for his great learning. Provincial superior of the Augustinians in 1287. Refused the bishoprics of Acerra and Melfi in Italy.
1246 at Furci, in the Abruzzi region, diocese of Chieti, Italy
• 6 February 1327 at the Augustinian convent in Naples, Italy of natural causes
• re-interred in Furci, Italy in August 1808
20 December 1888 by Pope Leo XIII (cult confirmed)
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-angelus-of-furci/
Brynolf
Born to the nobility, the son of Algot Brynolfsson. Educated at the cathedral of Skara, Sweden, and in Paris, France where he heard lectures by Saint Thomas Aquinas; Brinolfo was noted all his life for his learning. Had an extensive background in theology and canon law. Dean of the Linköping chapter and bishop of Skara in 1278; he served for over 38 years. Active in the political life of the country, Brinolfo worked to ensure that the needs and teachings of the Church became part of public policy. He supported missionaries in Sweden. When his work ran afoul of the absolutist King Magnus Ladulas c.1288, Brinolfo was forced briefly into exile. Wrote on theology, church administration, and poetry for feasts and holy days.
6 February 1317 in Skara, Sweden of natural causes
• Saint Bridget of Sweden received a vision that revealed the holiness of Brinolfo
• c.1498 by Pope Alexander VI
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-brinolfo-algotsson/
Limin, Liminéè, Limineo, Limiunius, Linguin
Sunday after 13 May
Companion of Saint Antholian of Auvergne. Martyred by pagan Alamanni under the leadership of Chrocus during their invasion of the Auvergne region of Gaul. Saint Gregory of Tours wrote about him in his history of the time.
• c.265 in Auvergne, France
• buried in the basilica of Saint Vénérand in Clermont-Ferrand, France
• some relics enshrined in the church of the St-Allyre Abbey in Clermont, France in 1311 by order of Bishop Albert Aycelin, Archdiocese of Clermont
• some relics enshrined in a reliquary bust in the priory of Thuret, France in 1311 by order of Bishop Albert Aycelin, Archdiocese of Clermont, France
• relics destroyed in 1793 as part of the anti–Christian persecutions of the French Revolution
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-liminius-of-auvergne/
• James Kizayemon
• Ichikawa Kizaemon
• Didacus, Diego, Diogo
Raised Buddhist. Convert to Christianity. Married layman, and father of one son. His wife returned to her Buddhist roots; the two separated, and placed their child with a Christian family. Worked as a layman with the Jesuits in Osaka, Japan, caring for guests in their residence. Catechist in Osaka. Arrested with Paul Miki. Jesuit novice co-adjutor brother, joining the Society while imprisoned. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
1533 in Okayama, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-james-kisai/
Pietro di San Dionigi
Mercedarian priest. In 1247, he and Blessed Bernard de Prades were sent to Tunis, Tunisia to ransom Christians held in slavery and prison by the Moors under King Mohammed Alicur. They rescued 209 Christians. Bernard led them back to Spain, and planned to return with more money to rescue more slaves; Saint Peter stayed in north Africa to served the spiritual needs of those slaves. His preaching and zeal for the faith kept the prisoners from converting to Islam. This brought him to the attention of King Mohammed who had him arrested, beaten and executed. Martyr.
France
• beheaded outside the city walls of Tunis, Tunisia in 1247
• body burned and ashes scattered
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-peter-of-saint-dionysius/
• John Soan of Goto
• John Soan
• John of Goto
• Juan de Soan de Gotó
Raised Christian. He and his family fled to Nagasaki, Japan to escape persecution on the Goto Islands. Studied with the Jesuits at Nagasaki and Shiki. Jesuits temporal-coadjutor. Catechist at Osaka, Japan. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
c.1578 in the Goto Islands, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-john-soan-de-goto/
• Francis of Miyako
• Francis of Miako
• Franciscus...
Physician. Adult convert to Catholicism by Franciscan missionaries. Even before his conversion he carried a set of rosary beads. Franciscan tertiary. Catechist and preacher. Worked with the sick, treating them for free, and bringing religious teaching to those who were interested. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
1548 at Miyako, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-francis-of-nagasaki/
• Michael Cozaki
• Michael Kasaki
Married lay man. Father of Saint Thomas Kozaki. Bow maker and carpenter. Already a Christian with the Franciscans started their missionary work in his area, he joined as a Secular Franciscan, and worked with them as a catechist, and as a nurse in their hospital. Helped to build convents and churches in Kyoto and Osaka. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
c.1551 at Ise, Mie, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-michael-kozaki/
Leo Carasuma
Younger brother of Saint Paul Ibaraki. Uncle of Saint Louis Ibaraki. A Buddhist bonze in his youth. Convert to Christianity, baptized by Japanese Jesuits in 1589. First Korean Franciscan tertiary. Chief catechist for the Franciscan friars, and threw himself into any task they gave him. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
in Owari, Korea
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-leo-karasumaru/
Guéhénec, Guéhenneuc, Guéhenocus, Guéneuc, Guennec, Guénoc, Guethenoc, Guéthénoc, Guéthnec, Gueveneux, Guézennec, Guinau, Guinnous, Guinou, Guithénoc, Guithern, Gwezheneg, Hinec, Ithizieux, Izinieux, Venec, Veneuc, Vennec, Venoc, Vinec, Wéthénoc, Wihenoc
Son of Saint Fragan and Saint Gwen; brother of Saint Jacut and Saint Gwenaloe. Spiritual student of Saint Budoc. With Jacut, he was driven from Britain to Brittany in the 5th century by invading Saxons.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-guethenoc/
Antoliano
Martyred in the invasion of Crocus, king of the Alemanni, who invaded Gaul in the mid-3rd century.
• c.255 in Clermont-Ferrand, Aquitaine (in modern France)
• a basilica was constructed over the tomb of Saint Antolian c.475
• relics transferred to the church of Saint Gall in Clermont when the basilica collapsed in the 6th century
• when that church was destroyed, the relics were transferred to the church of Saint-Allyre
• relics destroyed when the Saint-Allyre church was sacked during the French Revolution
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-antolian-of-clermont/
• Paulus Ibaraki
• Yuanki, Yauniqui
Member of a noble samuri family. Brother of Saint Leo Karasumaru. Ran a small sake brewery to support his family. Convert, brought to the faith by Jesuit missionaries. Franciscan lay tertiary. Worked with the missionaries in Kyoto as an interpreter, catechist and lay preacher near the Franciscan convent of Our Lady of the Angels. Always charitable to those even poorer than himself.
in Owari, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-paul-ibaraki/
• Martin Loynaz de Aguirre
• Martin de Aguirre
• Martin Loynaz of the Ascension
Studied in Alcala, Spain. Joined the Franciscans in 1586. Priest. Loved to sing. Missionary to Mexico. Missionary to Manila in the Philippines. Briefly served as missionary in Osaka, Japan. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
c.1567 at Guipuzcoa, Spain
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-martin-of-the-ascension/
• Thomas Dauki
• Thomas Dangi
• Thomas Danki
Pharmacist with a violent disposition. Prayer and faith eventually mellowed him, and he became a kind-hearted Franciscan tertiary. When the Franciscans opened the convent of Our Lady of the Angels, Thomas moved his drug store next door to it. Catechist. Interpreter for the Franciscan missionaries. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-thomas-xico/
Matthias of Meako
Franciscan tertiary. When soldiers arrived to arrest Christians during an official persecution, they were looking for another Matthias who was not there. This Matthias offered himself, both to stand for his faith and to save the other Matthias. The soldiers were happy to take him. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
Japanese
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-matthias-of-miyako/
• Bonaventure of Maeco
• Bonaventure of Miako
Baptized as an infant, his mother died when he was a baby, and his step-mother sent him to be raised in a Buddhist monastery. When he was judged old enough, he was told about his background. To learn more, he visited the Franciscan convent at Kyoto. There he found a peace he had been looking for, and stayed to become a Franciscan tertiary. Catechist. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
at Kyoto, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
Louis Ibarki
Nephew of Saint Paul Ibaraki and Saint Leo Karasumaru. Altar boy for the Franciscan missionaries. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki. Noted for maintaining his high spirits and encouraging all around him during the torture and forced march to Nagasaki.
c.1585 in Owari, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-louis-ibaraki/
Zaquira Tachegia
Sword maker. Convert to Christianity, brought into the faith by Jesuit missionaries. Lay Franciscan tertiary. Interpreter for the missionaries. Catechist for the Franciscans. Preached in Osaka. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
at Owari, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-cosmas-takeya/
• Thomas Cozaki
• Thomas Kasaki
Son of Saint Michael Kozaki. Altar boy. Helped his father with his carpentry for the Franciscan missionaries, and then stayed at the convent they had built. His farewell letter to his mother, written from prison, has survived. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
c.1582 at Ise, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-thomas-kozaki/
• Francisco Andrade Arco
• Francis...
Franciscan lay brother, joining the Order in 1566. Missionary to Phillipines and Japan. Arrested in Osaka with Saint Peter Baptist in 1596. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
c.1544 at La Parilla, Spain (near Valladolid)
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-francisco-of-saint-michael/
Ine, Ini, Im
King of Wessex (in modern England) from 688 to 726. Known as a great warrior, lawgiver and justice, he restored Glastonbury Abbey. Married to Saint Ethelburga of Wessex who helped shift his focus from earthly to spiritual concerns. In 726, Ina abdicated his throne, he and Ethelburga moved to Rome, Italy where he spent his remaining days as a penitential monk and prayful pilgrim to the tombs of the martyrs.
in Wessex, England
727 at Rome, Italy of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ina-of-wessex/
Francisco Blanco
Studied at Salamanca, Spain. Alcantarine Franciscan monk. Evangelist in Mexico, Philippines, and Japan. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
c.1567 at Monterey, Spanish Galacia
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-francis-blanco/
Hilda, Hildegundis, Ildegonda
Born to the 12th-century German nobility, the daughter of Count Herman of Lidtberg. Countess, married to Count Lothair. Mother of three, one of whom died in his youth; the other two were Blessed Herman Joseph and Blessed Hadewych. Widowed, in 1178 she turned her castle at Meer, Germany, a former fortress, into a Premonstratensian convent. Against strong family opposition, she and her daughter joined the Order. Prioress of the convent.
6 February 1183 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-hildegund/
• Joachim Sakachibara
• Joachim Saccachibara
• Ioachim...
Physician who treated the poor for free. Franciscan tertiary. Sometime cook for the Franciscan missionaries at Osaka, Japan. Catechist. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
1556 at Osaka, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-joachim-sakakibara/
• Peter Sukejiro
• Peter Xukexico
• Peter Shukeshiko
Franciscan tertiary. Catechist. House servant and sacristan to the Franciscan missionaries. Arrested for his faith in Kyoto while ministering to imprisoned fellow Christians. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-peter-sukejiroo/
Born to the Italian nobility. Priest. Canon of the catehdral of Bologna, Italy. Augustinian canon c.1104. Chosen bishop of Pavia, Italy c.1139, but adamantly refused the appointment, citing his inadequacy to the task. Elevated to cardinal-bishop of Palestrina in 1144 by Pope Lucius II.
c.1080 in Bologna, Italy
1159 of natural causes
by Pope Alexander III
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-guarinus/
• Caius Francis
• Gaius Francis
Layman soldier. Convert. Franciscan tertiary. When soldiers came to arrest the Franciscan friars, he insisted he was a Christian, too; they took him, and he shared their fate. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
Kyoto, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-kichi-franciscus/
15th-century Franciscan priest. After preaching a Lenten sermon in Castelluccio, Italy, he let the parishioners know that he going to die very soon; he did a little later in the day. He was buried at the parish church until the Franciscans could send people to take the body home. However, miracles began occurring at his grave, and the locals would not let them take him away.
1462 in Castelluccio, Calabria, Italy of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-biagio-of-cento/
• Antony Dainan
• Anthony, Antonius
Son of a Chinese father and Japanese mother. Altar boy. Educated by the Jesuits in Nagasaki and the Franciscans in Osaka. Franciscan tertiary. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki at age 13.
c.1583 at Nagasaki, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-antony-deynan/
Tancho, Tanchon, Tatta, Tatto
Monk. Abbot of Amalbarich Abbey in Saxony (in modern Germany). Bishop of Werden, Germany. Murdered by pagans for denouncing their customs. Martyr.
Ireland
808
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-tanco-of-werden/
Courtier to Prince Ferdinand. He was sent to escort the fiance' of the prince, but when Diego arrived he found that she had recently died. He heard Saint Dominic de Guzman preaching, and decided to give up court life for religious. He travelled with Saint Dominic and became one of the first Dominicans. Bishop of Osma, Spain in 1201.
30 December 1207 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-diego-de-azevedo/
Giacuto, Iacuto
Son of Saint Fragan and Saint Gwen; brother of Saint Guethenoc and Saint Gwenaloe. Spiritual student of Saint Budoc. Monk. With Guethenoc, he was driven from Britain to Brittany in the 5th century by invading Saxons. There he founded a monastery in Brittany near the sea and led it as abbot until his death.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-jacut/
Convert, baptized by the Jesuits in 1584. Franciscan tertiary. Catechist. In charge of Saint Joseph’s hospital in Kyoto, Japan. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki. He preached from the cross in his last minutes.
1563 at Owari, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-paul-suzuki/
• Relindis of Maaseik
• Renildis, Renula, Renule, Renilde
She and her sister Herlindis were nuns in Valenciennes in northern France. An artist, Relindis was known for her painting and embroidery. Abbess in Maaseik, Belgium.
c.750 in Tongres, Brabant, Astrasia (in modern Belgium) of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-relindis-of-eyck/
• John Kimoia
• John Kinuya
Layman. Silk-weaver. Convert. Franciscan tertiary. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
at Miyako, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-john-kisaka/
Queen of Wessex (part of modern England) from 688 to 726, married to Saint Ina of Wessex. Late in life, Ina abdicated, and the couple moved to Rome, Italy where they spent their time caring for English pilgrims, and praying at the tombs of the saints.
England
Rome, Italy of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ethelburga-of-wessex/
Convert, brought to the faith by Saint Gundisalvus Garcia. Franciscan tertiary. Catechist. Martyr.
c.1578 at Ise, Japan
crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-gabriel-de-duisco/
• Theophilus Scholasticus
• Theophilus of Caesarea
Pagan lawyer brought to the faith through a miracle received through the intervention of Saint Dorothy of Caesarea. Martyr.
beheaded in 300 in Caesarea, Cappadocia (in modern Turkey)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-theophilus-the-lawyer/
Amanzius
10th bishop of the diocese of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, France.
France
relics burned by Calvinists in 1561
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-amantius-of-saint-paul-trois-chateaux/
Geraldo, Gerardo, Geroldo, Gherardo
Benedictine monk. Prior of Cluny Abbey. Bishop of Ostia, Italy. Papal legate to France, Spain and Germany. Imprisoned by the German emperor, Henry V.
1077
Velletri, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-gerald-of-ostia/
• Antimo of Saltara
• Antonio
Twin brother of Blessed Giovanni of Urbino. Franciscan tertiary. Hermit. Known for his life of penance, and as a miracle worker.
1438 in Saltara, Pesaro, Italy
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-antimo-of-urbino/
Founded and led the Mercedarian monastery of the Consolation in Lorca, Spain.
Consolation monastery, Lorca, Spain of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-teresa-fernandez/
Son of Conis and Saint Darerca, one of their nineteen children. Brother of Saint Melchu. Nephew of Saint Patrick. Travelled with Patrick and helped evangelize Ireland. Ordained bishop of Armagh, Ireland by Patrick.
British Isles
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-melchu-of-armagh/
Silvano
Bishop of Emesa, Phoenicia for 40 years. Martyred in the persecutions of Maximian.
thrown to wild animals c.311 in Emesa, Phoenicia (modern Homs, Syria)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-silvanus-of-emesa-6-february/
Lector for bishop Saint Silvanus of Emesa, Phoenicia. Martyred with Silvanus during the persecutions of Maximian.
thrown to wild animals c.311 in Emesa, Phoenicia (modern Homs, Syria)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-mucius-the-lector/
Deacon for and martyred with Bishop Silvanus of Emesa, Phoenicia. Martyred in the persecutions of Maximian.
thrown to wild animals c.311 in Emesa, Phoenicia (modern Homs, Syria)
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-luke-the-deacon/
Franciscan friar who had a reputation for piety, but about whom all information has been lost.
1289 in Recanati, Italy of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-compagno-of-recanati/
Antoliano, Anatolianus
Martyred in the persecutions of Valerian and Gallienus.
c.265 in Auvergne, France
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-antholian-of-auvergne/
Amandus, Amantius, Amatius
Founder and first abbot of the monastery at Nantes, France.
7th century of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-amand-of-nantes/
Amandus, Amantius, Amatius
Founder and first abbot of the monastery of Moissac, France.
644 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-amand-of-moissac/
Fifth-century bishop in Ireland, consecrated by his uncle, Saint Patrick. In later life he retired to live as a hermit on the island of Lough Ree, Ireland.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-mun-of-lough-ree/
Renula
Nun. Abbess of the Aldeneyk monastery at Tongeren, Brabant, Austrasia (in modern Belgium).
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-renilde-of-aldeneyk/
Martyred in the persecutions of Valerian and Gallienus.
c.265 in Auvergne, France
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-victorinus-of-auvergne/
Monk. Spiritual student of Saint Amandus of Maastricht at Elnone-en-Pevele, France. Abbot there.
c.690
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-andrew-of-elnone/
Bishop in Ireland, though the date and exact location are unknown, and we have no details of his life.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-dura-of-drum-cremha/
Martyred in the persecutions of Valerian and Gallienus.
c.265 in Auvergne, France
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-cassius-of-auvergne/
Martyred in the persecutions of Valerian and Gallienus.
c.265 in Auvergne, France
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-maximus-of-auvergne/
Franciscan tertiary.
1360 of natural causes
https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-francesca-of-gubbio/
Martyr.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-saturninus-6-february/
Martyr.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-theophilus-6-february/
Martyr.
https://catholicsaints.info/saint-revocata/
• Nagasaki Martyrs
• Saint Paul Miki and Companions
• Saint Peter Baptist and Companions
Twenty-six Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries and Japanese converts crucified together by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Following their arrests, they were taken to the public square of Meako to the city's principal temple. They each had a piece of their left ear cut off, and then paraded from city to city for weeks with a man shouting their crimes and encouraging their abuse. The priests and brothers were accused of preaching the outlawed faith of Christianity, the lay people of supporting and aiding them. They were each repeatedly offered freedom if they would renounce Christianity. They each declined.
• Saint Antony Deynan
• Saint Bonaventure of Miyako
• Saint Cosmas Takeya
• Saint Felipe of Jesus
• Saint Francis Blanco
• Saint Francis of Nagasaki
• Saint Francis of Saint Michael
• Saint Gabriel de Duisco
• Saint Gundisalvus Garcia
• Saint James Kisai
• Saint Joachim Saccachibara
• Saint John Kisaka
• Saint John Soan de Goto
• Saint Kichi Franciscus
• Saint Leo Karasumaru
• Saint Louis Ibaraki
• Saint Martin of the Ascension
• Saint Matthias of Miyako
• Saint Michael Kozaki
• Saint Paul Ibaraki
• Saint Paul Miki
• Saint Paul Suzuki
• Saint Pedro Bautista Blásquez y Blásquez
• Saint Peter Sukejiroo
• Saint Thomas Kozaki
• Saint Thomas Xico
• crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
• the Japanese style of crucifixion was to put iron clamps around the wrists, ankles and throat, a straddle piece was placed between the legs for weight support, and the person was pierced with a lance up through the left and right ribs toward the opposite shoulder
8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
• YouTube PlayList (Saint Peter Baptist)
• YouTube PlayList (Saint Paul Miki)
Today, I want to be one of the many Pilgrims who come to the Martyrs' Hill here in Nagasaki, to the place where Christians Sealed their fidelity to Christ with the sacrifice of their lives. They triumphed over death in one unsurpassable act of praise to the Lord. In prayerful reflection before the Martyrs' monument, I would like to penetrate the mystery of their lives, to let them speak to me and to the whole Church, and to listen to their message which is still alive after hundreds of years. Like Christ, they were brought close to a place where common criminals were executed. Like Christ, they gave their lives so that we might all believe in the love of the Father, in the saving mission of the Son, in the never-failing guidance of the Holy Spirit. On Nishizaka, on 5 February 1597, twenty-six Martyrs testified to the power of the Cross; they were the first of a rich harvest of Martyrs, for many more would subsequently hallow this ground with their suffering and death.
There is no greater love than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends" (John 15:13). "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24). Christians died in Nagasaki, but the Church in Nagasaki did not die. She had to go underground, and the Christian message was passed from parents to Children until the Church came back into the open. Rooted in this Martyrs' Hill, the Church in Nagasaki would grow and bloom, to become an example of faith and fidelity for Christians everywhere, an expression of hope founded in the Risen Christ.
Today, I come to this place as a pilgrim to give thanks to God for the lives and the death of the Martyrs of Nagasaki - for the twenty-six and all the others that followed them - including the newly beatified heroes of Christ's grace. I thank God for the lives of all those, wherever they may be, who suffer for their faith in God, for their allegiance to Christ the Savior, for their fidelity to the Church. Every age - the past, the present and the future - produces, for the edification of all, shining examples of the power that is in Jesus Christ.
Today, I come to the Martyrs' Hill to bear witness to the primacy of love in the world. In this holy place, people of all walks of life gave proof that love is stronger than death. They embodied the essence of the Christian message, the spirit of the Beatitudes, so that all who look up to them may be inspired to let their lives be shaped by unselfish love of God and love of neighbor.
Today, I, John Paul II, Bishop of Rome and Successor of Peter, come to Nishizaka to pray that this monument may speak to modern man just as the crosses on this hill spoke to those who were eye-witnesses centuries ago. May this monument speak to the world forever about love, about Christ!
- Pope John Paul II: Message at Nagasaki, Nishizaka, Japan - 26 February 1981
https://catholicsaints.info/martyrs-of-nagasaki/
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