Ferdinand of Saint Joseph de Ayala

Who they were

At Omura in Japan, the blessed martyrs Alphonsus Navarrete, of the Order of Preachers, Ferdinand of Saint Joseph de Ayala, of the Order of the Hermits of Saint Augustine, priests, and Leo Tanaka, a religious of the Society of Jesus, who, in hatred of the Christian faith, by edict of the supreme commander Hidetada, were beheaded together.

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 1 June as an Augustinian priest beheaded at Omura in Japan in hatred of the Christian faith.

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  “At Omura in Japan, the blessed martyrs Alphonsus Navarrete, of the Order of Preachers, Ferdinand of Saint Joseph de Ayala, of the Order of the Hermits of Saint Augustine, priests, and Leo Tanaka, a religious of the Society of Jesus, who, in hatred of the Christian faith, by edict of the supreme commander Hidetada,…” — this site's research