Ignacy Jorge-Fernandes
Feast: 10 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Ignatius, born in 1618, was the little son of Blessed Domingos Jorge and Blessed Isabel Fernandes. Led to martyrdom with his mother on 10 September 1622 at Nagasaki, he was urged by her to ask Blessed Carlo Spinola for his blessing; having seen her beheaded, he bared his neck to the executioner.
He is one of the 205 martyrs killed in Japan for the Catholic faith between 1617 and 1632 whom Pius IX declared Blessed on 7 July 1867.
The miracles
In 1867 Pius IX approved four signs in the cause of the 205 martyrs of Japan; the source does not describe them.
Why that counted as sanctity
A four-year-old boy whose courage the Holy See recorded by name.
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
- Domingos Jorge Blessed“Ignatius, born in 1618, was the little son of Blessed Domingos Jorge and Blessed Isabel Fernandes.” — this site's research
- Conferenza Episcopale Italiana - Santo del giorno, 10 settembre (Martirologio Romano)
- Dominican Order, Vicariate of Spain - IV Centenario de la gran persecución en Japón 1622 (Fr Jarvis Sy OP)
- Acta Sanctae Sedis 2 (1867), pp. 478-481 and 638-641 - decrees of Pius IX on the 205 martyrs of Japan (1617-1632)
- Directorio Franciscano (Franciscan Order, Spain) - Beatos Ricardo de Santa Ana y compañeros, mártires de Japón (beatification of the 205 on 7 July 1867)
- Wikidata Q24953789 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.