Saint Thomas Kozaki
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- Also known as
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Thomas Cozaki
Thomas Kasaki
- Memorial
- 6 February
- Profile
- Son of Saint Michael Kozaki.
Altar boy.
Raised Christian.
Helped his father with his carpentry for the Franciscan missionaries, and then stayed at the convent they had built.
His farewell letter to his mother, written from prison, has survived.
One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.
- Born
- c.1582 at Ise, Japan
- Died
- crucified on 5 February 1597 at Nagasaki, Japan
- Beatified
- 14 September 1627 by Pope Urban VIII
- Canonized
- 8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
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