Bl. Michael Takeshita
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Death: 1619
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Jesuit martyr of Japan. Michael was a member of a high noble Japanese family and was seized during the persecution against the Church. He was beheaded with ten companions at Nagasaki at the age of twenty-five. Pope Pius IX beatified him in 1867.