
Nagasaki Martyrs
Twenty-six missionaries and Japanese converts crucified together on 5 February
1597. They include:
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Antony Deynan
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Bonaventure of Miyako (Meaco)
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OFM Tertiary a Japanese native who became a Franciscan tertiary and catechist.
(He may only have been beatified and isn't included in the group of 26
who were canonized).
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Caius Francis
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OFM Tertiary, Japanese soldier who had only recently been baptized and
received as a Franciscan tertiary. He insisted on being arrested with the
friars.
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Cosmas Takeya (Tachegia, Zaquira)
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OFM Tertiary, lay Franciscan from Owari, Japan, who served the Franciscan
missionaries as interpreter and preached in Osaka.
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Diego (James) Kisai (Kizayemon)
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SJ, a Japanese layman who was the temporal coadjutor of the Jesuits and
a catechist in Osaka. Like John Gotto, he was admitted to the Society of
Jesus while he was imprisoned, just before his death at age 64.
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Francis Blanco
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Francis Falename
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Francis of Nagasaki
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Francis of Saint Michael
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Gabriel de Duisco
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Gundisalvus Garcia
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James Kisai
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John Kisaka (Kimoia)
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OFM tertiary, Japanese silk-weaver, born at Miyako. He was baptized and
received into the third order shortly before his crucifixion.
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Joachim Sakakibara (Saccachibara)
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OFM Tertiary, Japanese lay cook (another source says the physician) for
the Franciscans at Osaka, who also served as a catechist.
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John Soan
de Goto
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Jesuit, 19-year-old native Japanese who was admitted to the Jesuits in
prison shortly before his martyrdom. Prior to that he was a temporal-coadjutor
of the Society of Jesus and catechist at Osaka.
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Leo Karasumaru (Carasuma)
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Korean; pagan priest prior to his conversion to Christianity. He was baptized
by the Jesuits in Japan in 1589. He became the first Korean Franciscan
tertiary and was the chief catechist for the friars. With him was crucified
his brother Paul Ibaraki and their 12-year-old nephew Louis Ibaraki.
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Louis Ibaraki (Ibarki)
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12-year-old nephew of Paul Ibaraki and Leo Karasumaru, who served as acolyte
for the Franciscans.
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Martin Loynaz (de Aguirre) of the Ascension
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OFM, a native of Vergara near Pamplona, Spain. He studied in Alcala and
became a Franciscan in 1586. He first worked as a missionary in Mexico,
then Manila in the Philippines, and finally in Japan.
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Matthias of Miyako
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OFM Tertiary, Japanese native, became a Franciscan tertiary.
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Michael Cozaki
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Japanese catechist and hospital nurse to the Franciscan missionaries. He
was martyred with his own son, Thomas.
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Paul Miki
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Paul Ibaraki (Yuanki, Yuaniqui)
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Franciscan teriary, brother of Leo Karasumaru and a lay tertiary, interpreter,
and catechist.
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Paul Suzuki
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OFM Tertiary, born 1563, a native of Owari, Japan, was baptized by the
Jesuits in 1584, became a Franciscan tertiary, and was an outstanding catechist
until he, too, was crucified near Nagasaki.
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Peter Baptist
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Peter Sukejiroo, Peter Sukejiro, Peter Xukexico
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OFM tertiary, Japanese Franciscan tertiary who served as a catechist, house
servant, and sacristan to the Franciscan missionaries. He was sent by a
Jesuit priest to help the prisoners, and was then arrested.
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Philip de las Casas
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OFM
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Philip of Jesus
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Thomas Kozaki, Thomas Cozaki, Thomas Kasaki
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15-year-old Japanese native, who served as acolyte and was martyred with
his father, Michael.
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Thomas Xico (Dauki)
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OFM Tertiary, a Japanese Franciscan tertiary, catechist, and interpreter
to the missionaries.
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Ventura
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a Japanese layman from Miyako who was baptized by the Jesuits, gave up
his Catholicism on the death of his father, and brought back to the Church
by the Franciscans.