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Miguel Ruiz (Michael) was a Spanish Dominican, initially at Segovia, then at various houses in the Philippines.
He had learned the vernacular of these islands so well that he not only wrote various devotional books in it, but also compiled a grammar and a dictionary of the same. Through this, but above all through his apostolic work, which he combined with constant works of penance and prayer, he did a great deal for the establishment of the Good News of Jesus Christ in these regions.
His death occurred in A.D. 1630, it was supposed, of poison inflicted on him by a person whose sinful lifestyle he had admonished. (March. III. 410 and 411)
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 451)
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