Leo Aybara
a son of Blessed Roman Aybara, martyr at Nagasaki
Feast: 8 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Nagasaki in Japan, Blessed Anthony of Saint Bonaventure, of the Order of Friars Minor, and Dominic Castellet, of the Order of Preachers, priests, and twenty companions, martyrs, some of them lay people and many of them children: all suffered martyrdom for Christ by the sword or at the stake.
Among those named is Blessed Leo Aybara, a son of Blessed Roman Aybara.
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 among the twenty companions martyred at Nagasaki by the sword or at the stake.
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.