Lucas Alonso Gorda
Spanish missionary (1594-1633)
Feast: 20 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Nagasaki in Japan, the holy martyrs Lucas Alonso Gorda, priest, and Matthew Kohioye, religious, both of the Order of Preachers, of whom the first was a courageous minister of the Gospel first in the Philippine Islands and then for ten years in Japan, while the other, eighteen years old, was his companion in proclaiming and bearing witness to the faith.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 19 October as a Dominican priest martyred at Nagasaki after ten years' mission in Japan.
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
- Matthew Kohioye Saint“At Nagasaki in Japan, the holy martyrs Lucas Alonso Gorda, priest, and Matthew Kohioye, religious, both of the Order of Preachers, of whom the first was a courageous minister of the Gospel first in the Philippine Islands and then for ten years in Japan, while the other, eighteen years old, was his companion in…” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 19 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q24953052 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.