Antony Dainan

Saint Antony Dainan, Saint Antony Deynan, or Saint Antony of Nagasaki (1584 – 1597) was a Japanese Roman Catholic and Third Order Franciscan. He was one of a group of twenty-six Roman Catholics martyred by the Japanese authorities who were beatified on 10 July 1627 and canonised on 8 June 1862 – their feast day is 5 December.[1]

Life

He was born in Nagasakiwas born in Nagasaki of a Chinese father and a Japanese mother. He was an altar boy and a Franciscan tertiary.[2] The magistrate felt he was too young to be crucified and offered him another form of execution, but Antoine refused the offer since he considered it a form of apostasy. He sang the psalm Laudate pueri as he died but was fatally speared in the side by his executioner just as he had begun to sing the "Gloria Patri" at the end of it.

Pope Urban VIII beatified the Japanese protomartyrs on September 14, 1627.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Bol.II.313–320
  2. 1 2 Roca, Patrizia Fontana. "Saints Thomas Cesaki, Antonio da Nagasaki and Lodovico Ibarki, martyrs", Santi e Beati, March 17, 2006



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