Vincent Carvalho
Augustinian priest and martyr at Nagasaki
Feast: 3 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Nagasaki in Japan, Blessed Bartholomew Gutiérrez, priest of the Order of the Hermits of Saint Augustine, and five companions, martyrs, who out of hatred for the Christian faith were first plunged into boiling sulphurous water and then given to the flames.
Among those named is Blessed Vincent Carvalho, priest of the Order of the Hermits of Saint Augustine.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 3 September among those plunged into boiling sulphurous water and then burned at Nagasaki out of hatred for the Christian faith.
- Roman Martyrology, 3 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rbd4d1047 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.