Melchor de San Agustín
Spanish missionary
Feast: 10 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Nagasaki in Japan, Blesseds Martín Lumbreras Peralta and Melchor Sánchez Pérez, priests of the Order of Saint Augustine and martyrs, who, as soon as they entered this city, were arrested and thrown into a dark cell, and finally sent to 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 11 December as an Augustinian priest burned at the stake at Nagasaki.
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, 11 December (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q11777067 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.