Blessed Gundisalvus Fusai

Memorial: 10 September
Profile: Held high office in the Japanese imperial court. Convert to Christianity. After baptism, he quit his position to work for Jesuit missionaries. Imprisoned in Omura, and while in prison he joined the Jesuits, received into the society by Blessed Charles Spinola. Martyr.
Born: 1582 in Japan
Died: burned alive in 1622 at Nagasaki, Japan
Beatified: 1867
Canonized: pending
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