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Alfonso Navarrete Benito
June 1, priest


Source: Catholicsaints.info



Also known as
    •    Alfonsus Navarrete
    •    Alphonso Navarrete
    •    Alphonsus de Mena
Memorial
    •    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
Died
    •    beheaded on 1 June 1617 in Koguchi, Omura, Nagasaki, Japan
Venerated
    •    26 February 1866 by Blessed Pope Pius IX
Beatified
    •    7 May 1867 by Blessed Pope Pius IX








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