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Blessed Alfonso Navarrete-Benito

detail of an antique Italian holy card of Beato Alfonso Navarrette, date unknown, artist unknown; swiped with permission from the Santini Imagini web site Also known as

Alfonsus Navarrete
Alphonso Navarrete
Alphonsus de Mena

1 June
10 September (as one of the 205 Martyrs of Japan)
6 November (Dominicans as one of their Martyrs of the Far East)

Profile

Dominican priest. Missionary to the Philippines in 1578. In 1610 he returned to Europe to recruit missionaries, and in 1611 returned to the Orient as missionary and Dominican provincial vicar in Japan. His evangelism work brought many hundreds to Christianity. Martyr.

Born

21 September 1571 in Logroño, Spain

beheaded on 1 June 1617 in Koguchi, Omura, Nagasaki, Japan

26 February 1866 by Blessed Pope Pius IX

7 May 1867 by Blessed Pope Pius IX

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Life of the Blessed Charles Spinola, by Joseph Broeckaert, SJ

books
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

fonti in italiano
- Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
- Santi e Beati
- Santini Imagini

nettsteder i norsk
- Den katolske kirke

strony w jezyku polskim
- Conference of the Polish Episcopate

MLA Citation

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