Saint Philip of Jesus
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- Also known as
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Felipe de Jesus;
Philip de la Casas
- Memorial
- 6 February
- Profile
- His parents immigrated from Illescas, Spain to Mexico City.
Philip was raised in a pious family; two of his brothers entered the Augustinians, and one was martyred.
He joined the Reformed Franciscan Convent of Santa Barbara in Pueblo, Mexico in his early teens, but left after a year.
With his father's assistance, Philip sailed to Manila in the Philippines to start an overseas trading buiness.
However, he continued to feel the call to religious life, and on 22 May 1594 he entered the Franciscan Convent of Our Lady of the Angels in Manila, becoming a friar, and working with the sick.
At his family's request, he was returned to Mexico in 1596 to be ordained a bishop, but the ship was blown off course and wrecked on a reef on the coast of Japan; during the storm, Philip had a vision of a white cross hanging above Japan, a cross which became blood red.
The locals impounded its cargo and imprisoned the crew.
In order to keep the cargo from Philip's ship, the warlord Taikosama accused Philip and his crew of piracy and spying for the king of Spain preparatory to an invasion.
Philip and several other Christians were placed under house arrest at Miako for several weeks, and then condemned to death.
One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
- Born
- 1575 in Mexico as Philip de al Casas
- Died
- crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
- Name Meaning
- lover of horses (Philip)
- Beatified
- 14 September 1627 by Pope Urban VIII
- Canonized
- 8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
- Patronage
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Additional Information
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Catholic Online
New Catholic Dictionary
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
- References
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints
Pictorial Lives of the Saints
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