Feast August 17
Saint Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga
Religious · Feast August 17
Biography
Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga de Santa María, OP was a Japanese Dominican friar and Catholic priest. He worked on the 1630 Spanish edition of the Nippo Jisho, one of the first modern Japanese dictionaries. He was martyred in 1633.
Feast day
August 17
Birth date
1582
Death date
1633-08-17
Canonization status
Canonized
Canonization date
18 October 1987
Canonized by
Pope John Paul II
Feast month
8
Wikidata qid
Q3595066
Content subtype
saint_biography
Feast day of month
17