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Paulo Miki
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The sentence of judgment says these men came to Japan from the Philippines, but I did not come from any other country. I am a true Japanese.
— The Heroic Death of St. Paul Miki & Companions: the First Japanese Martyrs
Paulo Miki
Roman Catholic Japanese Jesuit seminarian and martyr
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Lived 1564–1597, aged 33Japan
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Updated 2026-06-09
A Japanese Jesuit who preached until the executioners nailed him to a cross in 1597, during a wave of persecutions that turned twenty-six Catholics into Japan's first martyred saints.
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Born around 1562, Paulo Miki became a Catholic evangelist and joined the Jesuits in a country where the faith had only recently taken root. When a 16th-century anti-Catholic uprising swept Japan, he was among twenty-six believers arrested and condemned. On February 5, 1597, he was executed. More than two and a half centuries later, Pope Pius IX canonized him in 1862, formally recognizing Miki and his companions as the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan.
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