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christian.art/en/daily-gospel-reading/727-Feb 23 Jesus being Crucified, Painted by Lu Hongnian (1914-1989), Published circa 1930, Screen print on paper
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JAN. 28 St. Jerome Lou-Tin-Mei, Roman Catholic Layman and Chinese Martyr. Bl. Lawrence Wang, Roman Catholic Layman and Chinese Martyr
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St. Jerome Lou-Tin-Mei, Roman Catholic Layman and Chinese Martyr. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes 120 Catholics who died between 1648 and 1930 as its "Martyr Saints of China". Jan. 28 Bl. Lawrence Wang, Roman Catholic Layman and Chinese Martyr. Lawrence was beheaded by anti-Christian forces and received beatification in 1909. Feastday Jan28
St. Francisco Fernandez de Capillas was proclaimed Protomartyr (First Martyr) of China on 16 September 1748 by Pope Benedict XIV. T
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https://sglaydominicans.wordpress.com/saints/st-francis-de-capillas/ St. Francis de Capillas stfrancisdecapillasSt. Francisco Fernandez de Capillas was proclaimed Protomartyr (First Martyr) of China on 16 September 1748 by Pope Benedict XIV. Two centuries later, Pope Pius X was to beatify him on 2 May 1909. Almost another century after his beatification, he was canonised by Pope John Paul II on 1 October 2000. His feast is celebrated on the 15th of January. Angelic, penitential and mortified, it was declared that even if he had not been martyred, he could still have been beatified. The saint who was the first to shed his blood for Christ in China was born in Baquerín de Campos in Palencia, Spain, on 14 August 1607. He eventually entered the Dominican Priory of St. Paul of Valladolid. In February 1632 he arrived in Manila and was ordained to the priesthood. He then ministered for several years in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. In 1641, at the Provincial Chapter in Manila, he asked p...