Blessed Jerome de Angelis
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- 4 December
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- Jesuit priest.
Sailed as a missionary to Japan shortly after ordination, but due to a series of problems, took six years to arrive, landing during a persecution.
Spent twelve years working with the Nagasaki Christians.
An edict in 1614 expelled Jesuits and ended Catholic missions in Japan.
Jerome went into hiding in Nagasaki, and ministered to Japanese Christians in secret, disguising himself as a merchant.
In 1623 he was found out by the authorities, and martyred with 47 other Christians.
- Born
- 1568 in Sicily
- Died
- burned to death in 1623 in Yeddo, Japan
- Beatified
- 1867 by Pope Pius IX
- Canonized
- pending
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