Satoko Kitahara
Japanese Catholic social worker (1929–1958)
Feast: 23 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Satoko Kitahara (北原 怜子, Kitahara Satoko; 22 August 1929 – 23 January 1958) – later known as Elisabeth Maria Kitahara – was a Japanese Roman Catholic. Kitahara was descended from aristocrats and samurai warriors; she worked in an airplane warehouse during World War II and became disillusioned after she and others learnt of Japanese atrocities during the conflict. She discovered Roman Catholicism and after a period of being exposed to churches decided to learn catechism so she could be baptized.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q11401246 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Satoko Kitahara (CC BY-SA)
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