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Bl. Martin Gomez

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Feastday: August 17

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Blessed Martin Gómez was a Japanese layman of Portuguese descent and a Franciscan tertiary. He assisted Franciscan missionaries in Japan during a period of persecution. After his arrest, he was beheaded at Nagasaki on August 17, 1627, with companions who remained faithful to Christ. Pope Pius IX beatified him in 1867.

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