Dominik Castellet Vinale
Feast: 10 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Nagasaki in Japan, Blesseds Anthony of Saint Bonaventure, of the Order of Friars Minor, Dominic Castellet, of the Order of Preachers, priests, and twenty companions, martyrs, some of whom were lay people and many children: all suffered martyrdom for Christ by the sword or at the stake.
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 8 September as a Dominican priest martyred for Christ at Nagasaki with twenty companions.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 8 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q20028699 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.