Saint Leo Karasumaru
![[Martyrs of Nagasaki]](nagasaki.jpg "17kb jpg holy card of the Martyrs of Nagasaki")
- Also known as
- Leo Carasuma
- Memorial
- 6 February
- Profile
- Younger brother of Saint Paul Ibaraki.
Uncle of Saint Louis Ibaraki.
A Buddhist bonze in his youth.
Convert to Christianity, baptized by Japanese Jesuits in 1589.
First Korean Franciscan tertiary.
Chief catechist for the Franciscan friars, and threw himself into any task they gave him.
One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
- Born
- in Owari, Korea
- 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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