SAINT FEAST DAY 7 OCTOBER: BL. LEO TAKETOMI KAN'EMON

BLESSED LEO TAKETOMI KAN'EMON, MARTYR

In 1613, the pagan governor of Nagasaki, Japan, goaded a Japanese prince to undertake a new wave of persecution against Japanese Catholics. The prince thereupon summoned eight Catholic officers under his command to deny their faith or face death.

HE STOOD BY HIS CHRISTIAN FAITH

Five complied, but three refused, one of them was Blessed Leo Taketomi Kan’emon. He and the other two officers were condemned to die by fire in Arima together with their families.

Leo’s son (Blessed) Paul was among those sentenced to death, but Leo’s wife Monica and their daughter were pardoned. Grieved to be separated from her husband and her son, and to be denied the crown of martyrdom, Monica attempted to join them in prison but was forcibly turned away.

"WE ARE DYING FOR THE GLORY OF GOD"

On October 7, 1613, the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, Leo and the other martyrs proceeded to the execution site with lit candles and rosary beads in their hands and crosses tied to their arms. Those to be executed were so famous that over fifteen thousand onlookers were present. Before dying, Leo told the crowd, “We are dying for the Glory of God and in testimony to the faith; all of you, my brothers, remain faithful.”

“Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints.”

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr Leo confessed the faith, may experience his goodness as he intercedes for us with you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

⬅️ Saint Paul Miki and Companions

➡️ 205 Martyrs of Japan

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