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Saints of the Month: February

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          Saints Paul Miki and Companions
































                    The Christian martyrs of Nagasaki. 16-17th-
                    century Japanese painting.



          The 6th of February is the Feast day of Saints Paul Miki
          (Japanese: パウロ三木. 1562 – 5 February 1597) and Companions.

          The following is from Butler’s Lives of the Saints:



                       ABOUT forty years after St. Francis Xavier’s
                       death a persecution broke out in Japan, and
                       all Christian rites were forbidden under pain
                       of death. A confraternity of martyrs was at


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