Bl. Bartholomew Gutierrez
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Death: 1632
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Augustinian martyr of Japan. Born in 1538, in Mexico, he became an Augustinian in 1596 and was ordained. In 1606, he went to Manila, working there until transferred to Japan as superior in 1612. Bartholomew served this mission until his arrest in 1629. He was then imprisoned in Omura and was burned alive in Nagasaki. He was beatified in 1867.