Saint Francis of Saint Michael
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- Memorial
- 6 February
- Profile
- Franciscan layman.
Missionary to Phillipines and Japan.
Arrested in Osaka with Saint Peter Baptist in 1596.
One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
- Born
- c.1544 at La Parilla, Spain (vear Valladolid)
- Died
- crucified on 5 February 1597 at Tateyama (Hill of Wheat), Nagasaki, Japan
- Beatified
- 14 September 1627 by Pope Urban VIII
- Canonized
- 8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
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