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Klara Yamada
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Feast: 10 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1580
verified
Died
10 September 1622
verified
Beatified
7 July 1867
by Pius IX
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
Clare Yamada, born in 1580, was the wife of Blessed Dominic Yamada and a member of the Confraternity of the Rosary. She was put to death with her husband on the hill at Nagasaki on 10 September 1622, among the fifty-two martyrs who died there before a great crowd.
She 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 wife martyred with her husband.
Sources
- Conferenza Episcopale Italiana - Santo del giorno, 10 settembre (Martirologio Romano)
- Dominican Order, Vicariate of Spain - IV Centenario de la gran persecución en Japón 1622 (Fr Jarvis Sy OP)
- 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 Q24953328 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.