Feastday: May 22
Death: 1617
Jesuit martyr of Japan. He was born in the Azores and became a Jesuit in Coimbra, Portugal. In 1609 he was sent to Japan. John and two companions were beheaded at Nagasaki. He was beatified in 1867.
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Feastday: May 22
Death: 1617
Jesuit martyr of Japan. He was born in the Azores and became a Jesuit in Coimbra, Portugal. In 1609 he was sent to Japan. John and two companions were beheaded at Nagasaki. He was beatified in 1867.