Charles Spinola
Italian Jesuit and martyr
Feast: 4 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Nagasaki in Japan, Blesseds Sebastian Kimura, of the Society of Jesus, Francis Morales, of the Order of Preachers, priests, and fifty companions, martyrs, who, priests, religious, married couples, young people, catechists, widows and children, died for Christ on a hill before a great crowd amid cruel tortures. Among those named is Blessed Charles Spinola, priest of the Society of Jesus.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 10 September among the martyrs of Nagasaki, as a Jesuit priest.
Connected on this site
- Inès Takeya Blessed“They were beheaded, with Charles Spinola and companions, during the "Great Genna Martyrdom" at Nagasaki.” — Wikipedia
- Roman Martyrology, 10 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2266240 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Charles Spinola (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.