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Revision as of 07:57, 23 November 2016
Saint Giordano Ansalone, OP | |
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Born | 1 November 1598 Santo Stefano Quisquina, Italy |
Died | 17 November 1634 Nagasaki, Japan |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
Beatified | 18 February 1981, Manila, Philippines by Pope John Paul II |
Canonized | 18 October 1987, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
Feast | 17 November |
Saint Giordano Ansalone (Ansalone; Giordano di San Stefano) (1598 – 17 November 1634) was an Italian Dominican missionary in Asia. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1981 and canonized in 1987 by Pope John Paul II.[1]
Life
Ansalone was born at Santo Stefano Quisquina in Sicily. Having entered the Dominican Order and completed his studies at Salamanca, he was sent in 1625, together with many others, as a missionary to the Philippine Islands. Whilst serving as chaplain in a hospital for Chinese and Japanese at Manila he learned their languages.
In 1631, he offered to go to Japan and arrived at the outbreak of the persecution in 1632. Disguised as a bonze, he travelled over the land and administered the rites of the Catholic religion.
He was arrested 4 August 1634, and subjected to tortures that lasted seven days. He was forced to witness the beheading of his companion, Thomas of St. Hyacinth, and sixty-nine other Christians. On 18 November he was executed at Nagasaki, Japan, by being suspended till dead from a plank with his head buried in the ground.
Works
Whilst detained in Mexico, on his way to the Philippine Islands, he wrote in Latin a series of lives of Dominican saints after a similar work by Hernando del Castillo. He left at Manila an unfinished treatise on Chinese religion.
References
- ^ "San Giordano Ansalone su santiebeati.it". Santiebeati.it. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Giordano Ansaloni". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
- Quétif and Echard, SS. Ord. Præd., II, 478:
- Alvarez del Manzano, Compendio de la reseña biográfica de los religiosos de la Provincia de Santisimo Rosario de Filipinas (Manila, 1896), 122 sqq.
- 1598 births
- 1634 deaths
- Italian Dominicans
- Italian Roman Catholic missionaries
- Italian Roman Catholic saints
- Japanese Roman Catholic saints
- 17th-century venerated Christians
- People from the Province of Agrigento
- Beatifications by Pope John Paul II
- Roman Catholic missionaries in Japan
- Italian expatriates in Japan
- Dominican missionaries
- 17th-century executions by Japan
- Italian people executed abroad