SAINT MARTIN LOYNAZ

St. Martin Loynaz of the Ascension OFM,
Martin Loynaz (de Aguirre)

Feast day: February 6


Franciscan martyr of Japan. He was born at Vergara, Navarre,near Pamplona, Spain,  He studied in Alcala and became a Franciscan in 1586 .He first worked as a missionary in Mexico and Manila, in the Philippines, before serving in Japan. He was crucified at Nagasaki and was canonized in 1862.