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St. Paul Miki and Companions (February 6, 2012)
Nagasaki, Japan, is familiar to Americans as the city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped, killing hundreds of thousands. Three and a half centuries before, 26 martyrs of Japan were crucified on a hill, now known as the Holy Mountain, overlooking Nagasaki. Among them were priests, brothers and laymen, Franciscans, Jesuits and members of the Secular Franciscan Order; there were catechists, doctors, simple artisans and servants, old men and innocent children--all united in a common faith and love for Jesus and his Church.
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St. Mel
He is said to have been the son of Conis and Darerca, the sister of St. Patrick, whom he accompanied to Ireland ...
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St. Dorothy
According to her apochryphal tradition, she was a resident of Caesarea, Cappadocia, who when she refused to ...
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St. Amand
This great missionary was born in lower Poitou about the year 584. At the age of twenty, he retired to a ...
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Bl. Diego De Avezedo
Blessed Diego De Avezedo was sent to escort the fiance' of Prince Ferdinand. When he arrived, she had ...
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St. Francis Nagasaki
Francis is Japanese from Miako. He became a physician and later was converted to Catholicism by the Franciscan ...
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St. Vedast
Known also as Vaast, Foster, and Gaston, St. Vedast, a native of western France, is best-known as the catechist of ...
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St. Paul Miki
Paul was the son of a Japanese military leader. He was born at Tounucumada, Japan, was educated at the Jesuit ...
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St. Antholian
Also called Anatolianus, a martyr. He is mentioned by St. Gregory of Tours as one of the martyrs of Auvergne, ...
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St. Anthony Dainan
One of the Japanese Martyrs, an altar boy, aged thirteen. Anthony was a Japanese from Nagasaki and a member of the ...
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St. Bonaventure of Miako
Martyr of Japan. A native of that nation, Bonaventure was a Franciscan tertiary and a catechist. A companion of ...
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St. Tanco
Irish Benedictine abbot and bishop, also called Tancho and Tatta. Tanco became a monk and served as abbot of the ...
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St. Theophilus the Lawyer
Martyr, known as Theophilus Scholasticus "the Lawyer." He was beheaded at Caesarea, in ...
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St. Thomas Danki
Japanese martyr. A native layman, he entered the Franciscans as a tertiary and served as an interpreter for the ...
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St. Thomas Kozaki
Japanese martyr. The son of St. Michael Kozaki, he was a boy of fifteen who aided the Franciscan missionaries and ...
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Sts. Saturninus, Theophilus, & Revocata
Martyrs put to death sometime during the Roman persecutions. The date of their deaths is unknown.
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St. Cosmas
One of the Martyrs of Japan in Nagasaki. He was a native of Japan and a Franciscan tertiary, serving as an ...
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St. Francis of St. Michael
Franciscan martyr of Japan. Born in Parilla, Spain, he was a Franciscan lay brother sent to Manila, in the ...
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St. James Kisai
Jesuit martyr in Japan. A native of Japan, he entered the Society of Jesus and worked as a catechist until his ...
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St. John Soan de Goto
Japanese martyr of Japan. He was only nineteen at the time of his crucifixion at Nagasaki with many companions.
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