Augustine Ota
Jesuit religious and martyr at Iki
Feast: 10 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the city of Iki in Japan, Blessed Augustine Ota, religious of the Society of Jesus and martyr, beheaded for Christ.
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 10 August as a Jesuit religious beheaded for Christ in the city of Iki in Japan.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.