BLESSED YAKICHI FAMILY, MARTYRS - 2 OCTOBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER

Saints celebrated on the 2nd of October

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

BLESSEDS LUCIA, LUDOVICUS, ANDREW, AND FRANCISCUS YAKICHI, MARTYRS 

Roman martyrology: In Nagasaki in Japan, blessed Ludovicus Yakichi and Lucia, spouses, and their children Andrew and Francis, martyrs, who faced death for Christ: the boys and the mother beheaded in front of their father and he, finally, burned alive. 

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The blessed spouses Ludovicus and Lucia Yakichi and their children Andrew and Franciscus, a family of the Diocese of Funai, suffered death for Christ in Japan, their homeland. 

The two children were beheaded together with their mother in front of the father, and the latter was finally burned alive. 

This happened on October 2, 1622 in Nagasaki, the Japanese city of which they were native. 

The two children were born respectively in 1615 and 1619, while the dates of the parents are not known. 

The Supreme Pontiff Blessed Pius IX beatified this entire family on May 7, 1867, together with a total group of 205 martyrs in Japan, including another 15 married couples, all of the same nationality.

⬅️ Saint Paul Miki and Companions

➡️ 205 Martyrs of Japan