Blessed Alfonso Navarrete Benito
- Also known as
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Alfonsus Navarrete
Alphonso Navarrete
- Memorial
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10 September
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 provicial vicar in Japan.
His evangelism work brought many hundreds to Christianity.
Martyr.
- Born
- 21 September 1571 in Logroño, Spain
- Died
- beheaded on 1 June 1617 in Koguchi, Omura, Nagasaki, Japan
- Venerated
- 26 February 1866
- Beatified
- 7 May 1867
- Canonized
- pending;
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
- Kirken i Norge - norwegian
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints
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