Cosmas Takeya
Feast: 6 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Cosmas Takeya is honoured together with others as Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan. From that page:
On 5 February 1597, during the persecution begun by the regent Toyotomi Hideyoshi, twenty-six Christians were crucified on Nishizaka hill in Nagasaki and killed with lances: six Franciscans, the Japanese Jesuit Paul Miki and two Jesuit novices who took their vows hours before they died, and seventeen lay converts, among them two young boys.
Shared write-up of the group, until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information available on this saint.
Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan Saint honoured together
- Inès Takeya Blessed“Among those named is Blessed Agnes (Inès) Takeya, widow of Blessed Cosmas Takeya.” — this site's research
- Léonard Kimura Blessed“At Nagasaki in Japan, Blessed martyrs Léonard Kimura, religious of the Society of Jesus, Andrew Murayama Tokuan, Cosmas Takeya, John Yoshida Shoun and Dominic Jorge, burned in the fire because they were Christians.” — this site's research
- Wikidata Q20604815 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Not yet written up in full: no Church source with an account of this person has been found yet. The name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.