Nov 042009
![[Blessed Alfonso Navarrete-Benito]](http://saints.sqpn.com/wp-content/gallery/blessed-alfonso-navarrete-benito/beato-alfonso-navarrete.jpg "jpg detail of an antique Italian holy card of Beato Alfonso Navarrette, date unknown, artist unknown; swiped with permission from the Santini Imagini web site")
Also known as
- Alfonsus Navarrete
- Alphonso Navarrete
- Alphonsus de Mena
- 1 June
- 10 September (as one of the 205 Martyrs of Japan
- 6 November (Dominicans as one of their Martyrs of the Far East)
Profile
Dominican priest. Missionary to the Philippines in 1578. In 1610 he returned to Europe to recruit missionaries, and in 1611 returned to the Orient as missionary and Dominican provincial vicar in Japan. His evangelism work brought many hundreds to Christianity. Martyr.
Born
- 21 September 1571 in Logroño, Spain
- if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Alfonso, contact
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan
2-10-10 Shiomi Koto-ku
Tokyo 135-8585 JAPAN
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Hagiography Circle
- Kirken i Norge
- Life of the Blessed Charles Spinola, by Joseph Broeckaert, SJ
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
- Santini Imagini
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Alfonso Navarrete-Benito”. Saints.SQPN.com. 3 May 2010. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-alfonso-navarrete-benito/>