Saint Cosmas Takeya
- Also known as
- Zaquira Tachegia
- Memorial
- 6 February
- Profile
- Sword maker.
Convert to Christianity, brought into the faith by Jesuit missionaries.
Lay Franciscan tertiary.
Interpreter for the missionaries.
Catechist for the Franciscans.
Preached in Osaka.
One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
- Born
- at Owari, Japan
- Died
- crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
- Beatified
- 14 September 1627 by Pope Urban VIII
- Canonized
- 8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
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