# Alfonso Navarrete

> Blessed Alfonso Navarrete, also known as Alfonso Navarrete-Benito, sometimes latinised as Alphonsus, was a Spanish nobleman, Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and missionary in the Philippines (1598-1610) and in Japan (1611-death), active during the anti-Christian persecutions of early Tokugawa Japan, in the Shogunate of Hidetada. Celebrated for his social work he has been called the Vincent de Paul of Japan and at some point became Master of the Order of Preachers in the country. He was executed by beheading in the Ōmura Domain on the orders of the Daimyo Ōmura Sumiyori on 1 June 1617.

*Spanish Dominican missionary and martyr*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Country:** Spain
- **Born:** 1571-09-21
- **Died:** 1617-06-01
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Blessed Alfonso Navarrete, also known as Alfonso Navarrete-Benito, sometimes latinised as Alphonsus, was a Spanish nobleman, Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and missionary in the Philippines (1598-1610) and in Japan (1611-death), active during the anti-Christian persecutions of early Tokugawa Japan, in the Shogunate of Hidetada. Celebrated for his social work he has been called the Vincent de Paul of Japan and at some point became Master of the Order of Preachers in the country. He was executed by beheading in the Ōmura Domain on the orders of the Daimyo Ōmura Sumiyori on 1 June 1617.

## Fame
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