Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga
{{Short description|Japanese Dominican priest}}
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|name=Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga de Santa María
|birth_date={{circa}} 1582
|death_date={{death date|1633|8|17|df=y}}
|feast_day=17 August
|venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church
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|caption=The saint holding his dictionary
|birth_place=Kuidetsu, Ōmura Domain, Hizen Province (modern Ōmura, Nagasaki), Japan
|death_place=Nagasaki, Hizen Province, Japan
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|beatified_date=18 February 1981
|beatified_place=Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines
|beatified_by=Pope John Paul II
|canonized_date=18 October 1987
|canonized_place=St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
|canonized_by=Pope John Paul II
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|major_shrine=Minor Basilica of the National Shrine of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, Binondo, Manila, Philippines
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Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga de Santa María, OP ({{langx|ja|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 friar and Catholic priest. He worked on the 1630 Spanish edition of the Nippo Jisho, one of the first modern Japanese dictionaries.Meconi, David Vincent. 101 Surprising Facts About Church History, Saint Benedict Press, LLC, 2016. He was martyred in 1633.
Life
Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga was born of a noble Christian family in Kuidetsu (part of modern Ōmura, Nagasaki), Japan. In his youth, he studied with the Jesuits and became a catechist. After 1614, he came to Manila and became a Franciscan tertiary. He then sought admission to the Dominican Order and was accepted. He was ordained a priest in 1626[https://books.google.com/books?id=LTb25TOQdi4C&dq=Saint+Jacobo+Kyushei+Tomonaga&pg=PA65 Holböck, Ferdinand. New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church: Blesseds and saints canonized by Pope John Paul II during the years 1979-1983] United States, Ignatius Press, 2000. p. 65 and sent to the island of Formosa (Taiwan). He returned to Manila in 1630.[http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/93350 Resch, Andreas. "Giacomo Kyuhei Gorobioye Tomonaga", Santi e Beati, June 30, 2012]
He returned to Japan in 1632 as a missionary.[https://books.google.com/books?id=LTb25TOQdi4C&dq=Jacobo+Kyushei+Tomonaga&pg=PA65 Holböck, Ferdinand. New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church, Vol. I, Ignatius Press, 2000] {{ISBN|9780898707540}} He served to spread Catholicism during the period of Christians persecution.[https://catholicsaints.info/saint-jacobo-kyushei-gorobioye-tomonaga-de-santa-maria/ Saint Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga de Santa María] Retrieved on 7 Feb 2018
After returning to Japan he spent very difficult years of hunger, his life was at risk and he was continually in hiding. In July 1633 his hiding place was uncovered by the authorities with the help of the traitor Matthew Kohioye, who was his own catechist, he was caught and put into prison. There he was tortured by gallows and thrown into a pit on 15 August 1633. In two days he was dead. His body was not buried but burnt and thrown into the sea.[http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=7254/ Bl. Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga] Retrieved on 7 Feb 2018
Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga was declared Venerable on 11 October 1980 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom), who later beatified him on 18 February 1981 in Manila, Philippines and canonized him on 18 October 1987 in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.
References
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Sources
- Lorenzo de Manila, The Proto-Martyr of The Philippines and his Companions - Fr. Fidel Villaroel, O.P., 1988
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Category:Japanese Roman Catholic saints
Category:Members of the Dominican Order
Category:17th-century Christian saints
Category:Beatifications by Pope John Paul II