Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga

Saint Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga de Santa María
Born	c.1582 Kuidetsu, Ōmura Domain, Hizen Province (modern Ōmura, Nagasaki), Japan
Died	17 August 1633(1633-08-17) Nagasaki, Hizen Province, Japan
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Beatified	18 February 1981, Manila, Philippines by Pope John Paul II
Canonized	18 October 1987, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Major shrine	Binondo Church in Binondo, Manila, Philippines
Feast	17 August

Saint Fr. Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga de Santa María (Japanese: ヤコボ・デ・サンタ・マリア朝長五郎兵衛, Yakobo de Santa Maria Tomonaga Gorōbyōe; c. 1582 – August 17, 1633) was a Japanese Dominican.

Life

Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga was born in Kuidetsu (part of modern Ōmura, Nagasaki), Japan. In his youth, he dedicated himself to the catechism apostolate. After 1614, he came to Manila and sought reception into the Dominican Order. His request was granted. He was ordained a priest in 1626 and returned to Japan in 1632.

After one year of difficult apostolate in the midst of dangers, privations and sufferings, his hiding place was discovered by the authorities through the revelations of his own catechist, Miguel Kurobioye. Arrested in July 1633, he was tortured by the gallows and the pit on August 15, 1633, and died two days later. His body was cremated and the ashes thrown into the sea.

Sources

• Lorenzo de Manila, The Proto-Martyr of The Philippines and his Companions - Fr. Fidel Villaroel, O.P., 1988

• Holböck, Ferdinand. New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church, Vol. I, Ignatius Press, 2000, ISBN 9780898707540