Baltasar de Torres
Spanish missionary
Feast: 20 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Nagasaki in Japan, Blessed martyrs Francisco Pacheco, priest, and eight companions, of the Society of Jesus, condemned to the stake in hatred of the faith.
Among those named is Blessed Baltasar de Torres, priest.
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 20 June as a Jesuit priest among the companions of Francisco Pacheco burned at the stake at Nagasaki.
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.
Connected on this site
- Francisco Pacheco Blessed“At Nagasaki in Japan, Blessed martyrs Francisco Pacheco, priest, and eight companions, of the Society of Jesus, condemned to the stake in hatred of the faith.” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 20 June (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q24953081 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.