Lucy Luisa
a widow, 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 Lucy Luisa, a widow.
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 8 September among the twenty companions martyred at Nagasaki by the sword or at the stake.
- Roman Martyrology, 8 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rd565c1c2 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.