Gonsalo Garcia
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For other people named Gonzalo Garcia, see Gonzalo Garcia (disambiguation).
Gonsalo Garcia, O.F.M. (Portuguese: Gonçalo Garcia; 1556 – 5 February 1597),[1] was a lay brother of the Franciscans from Portuguese Bombay and Bassein in early modern India. He died a Christian martyr in the 16th-century Shogunate of Japan, and was canonised a saint along with his companions, the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan.[1] He was born at Bassein (Vasai), Baçaim in the Indo-Portuguese era, an exurban town of the present-day Greater Bombay metropolis.
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Born | 1556/1557 Bassein (Baçaim), Portuguese India Deccan Sultanates |
Died | 5 February 1597(1597-02-05) (aged 40) Nagasaki, Japan |
Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Beatified | 14 September 1627 by Pope Urban VIII |
Canonized | 8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX |
Major shrine | St. Gonsalo Garcia Church Gass, Vasai, India |
Feast | 6 February (along with other martyrs), 7 February (in India) |
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