Bl. Louis Flores
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Dominican martyr of Japan. Louis was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and moved with his family to Mexico. After becoming a Dominican, he went to the Philippines mission in 1602. Captured by the Dutch while he was on a journey in 1620, he was handed over to the Japanese. Held for two years and then burned alive in Nagasaki, he was beatified in 1867.
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