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Bl. Didacus Carvalho

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Feastday: February 25
Death: 1624

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A martyr of Japan. A native of Coimbra, Portugal, he became a Jesuit in 1594 and was ordained in India in 1600. In 1609, he was sent to Japan. There he worked until 1623, when he was arrested and taken to Sendai, where he and other Japanese Christians were executed. He was beatified in 1867.

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