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Jakub Hayashida
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Feast: 10 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
1628
Beatified
7 July 1867
by Pius IX
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
James Hayashida was one of the twenty companions of Blessed Antonio of Saint Bonaventure and Blessed Domingo Castellet, martyred at Nagasaki by the sword or by fire; many of the group were lay people and children. The Church remembers them on 8 September.
He is one of the 205 martyrs killed in Japan for the Catholic faith between 1617 and 1632 whom Pius IX declared Blessed on 7 July 1867.
The miracles
In 1867 Pius IX approved four signs in the cause of the 205 martyrs of Japan; the source does not describe them.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Japanese layman martyred at Nagasaki.
Sources
- Conferenza Episcopale Italiana - Santo del giorno, 8 settembre (Martirologio Romano)
- Acta Sanctae Sedis 2 (1867), pp. 478-481 and 638-641 - decrees of Pius IX on the 205 martyrs of Japan (1617-1632)
- Directorio Franciscano (Franciscan Order, Spain) - Beatos Ricardo de Santa Ana y compañeros, mártires de Japón (beatification of the 205 on 7 July 1867)
- Wikidata Q30902316 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.