Francis Higashi
a son of Blessed Louis Higashi, martyr at Nagasaki
Feast: 8 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Nagasaki in Japan, Blessed Anthony of Saint Bonaventure, of the Order of Friars Minor, and Dominic Castellet, of the Order of Preachers, priests, and twenty companions, martyrs, some of them lay people and many of them children: all suffered martyrdom for Christ by the sword or at the stake.
Among those named is Blessed Francis Higashi, a son of Blessed Louis Higashi.
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 8 September among the twenty companions martyred at Nagasaki by the sword or at the stake.
Connected on this site
- Louis Higashi Blessed“Among those named is Blessed Francis Higashi, a son of Blessed Louis Higashi.” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 8 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R7a4f0352 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.