Jerome Jo
martyr at Nagasaki
Feast: 3 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Nagasaki in Japan, Blessed Bartholomew Gutiérrez, priest of the Order of the Hermits of Saint Augustine, and five companions, martyrs, who out of hatred for the Christian faith were first plunged into boiling sulphurous water and then given to the flames.
Among those named is Blessed Jerome Jo.
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 3 September among those plunged into boiling sulphurous water and then burned at Nagasaki out of hatred for the Christian faith.
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.