Feastday: August 11
Death: 1627
Martyr of Japan with Bartholomew Laurel, another Franciscan; a doctor, Gasparvaz; and two Japanese. Taken prisoner, Francis, a Spanish-born Franciscan, was accompanied in martyrdom by others of the faith. They were burned alive in Nagasaki, Japan, on August 17. This group was beatified in 1867.
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