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Peter Vásquez
17th-century Spanish missionary and martyr
BlessedDominican Order
Feast: 25 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1591
Died
1624
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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Who they were
Pedro Vásquez, O.P, also known as Peter Vásquez, (1591 – 25 August 1624) was a Spanish Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and missionary who died a martyr in Japan. He was beatified in July 1867 by Pope Pius IX.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Wikidata Q20030304 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Pedro Vásquez (CC BY-SA)
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