Isabel Fernández
widow and martyr at Nagasaki
Feast: 10 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Nagasaki in Japan, Blessed Sebastian Kimura, of the Society of Jesus, and 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 Isabel Fernández, widow of Blessed Dominic Jorge.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 10 September among the fifty-two who died for Christ on a hill at Nagasaki, before a great crowd and amid cruel tortures.
- Roman Martyrology, 10 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q24036035 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.