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Sébastien Kimura
Japanese catholic priest
SaintFull write-upJapanSociety of JesusDocumented cause
Feast: 10 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1565
Died
1622
Beatified
—
not on record
Canonised
1867
unverified
Who they were
At Nagasaki in Japan, Blesseds Sebastian Kimura, of the Society of Jesus, Francis Morales, of the Order of Preachers, priests, and fifty companions, martyrs, who, priests, religious, married couples, young people, catechists, widows and children, died for Christ on a hill before a great crowd amid cruel tortures.
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 10 September as a Jesuit priest martyred at Nagasaki with fifty companions.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 10 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q16185936 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Sebastian Kimura (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.