James Kisai Explained

Saint
James Kisai
SJ
Birth Date:c. 1534[1]
Death Date:5 February 1597[2] (aged 62/63)
Feast Day:6 February
Venerated In:Roman Catholic Church
Birth Place:Tsudaka District, Bizen Province (now within Okayama Prefecture)
Death Place:Nagasaki, Japan
Titles:Jesuit and Martyr
Beatified Date:September 14, 1627
Beatified By:Pope Urban VIII
Canonized Date:June 8, 1862[3]
Canonized By:Pope Pius IX
Patronage:Japan

James Kisai, SJ, also known as [4] or Jacobo Kisai,[5] was a Japanese Jesuit lay brother and saint, one of the 26 Martyrs of Japan.[6]

Out of the 26, Kisai, Paul Miki, and John Soan de Goto were the only Jesuits to be executed in Nagasaki on February 5, 1597.

Biography

James Kisai was born as Ichikawa Kisaemon (市川喜佐衛門).[7]

As a lay catechist intending to join the Society of Jesus, he was imprisoned along with 23 other Catholics in December 1596 in the aftermath of the pivotal San Felipe incident.[8] While he was in prison, Kisai and a fellow lay catechist John Soan de Goto gave their vows to Jesuit fathers John Rodriguez and Francis Pasia to enter the Jesuit order.[9] Shortly after, Kisai and the other imprisoned Catholics were forced to take a land journey during the winter time from Sakai to Nagasaki. Kisai and the others would eventually reach Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki,[10] where they were crucified and lanced to death on February 5, 1597.[8] [11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: デジタル版 日本人名大辞典+Plusの解説. Kotobank. The Asahi Shimbun Company. https://web.archive.org/web/20150603211552/https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%96%9C%E6%96%8E%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B4-1068960. 3 June 2015. ja. dead. 26 February 2020.
  2. https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%96%9C%E6%96%8E%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B4-1068960 コトバンク-喜斎ディエゴとは
  3. Book: Jennes, Joseph. A History of the Catholic Church in Japan, from Its Beginnings to the Early Meiji Era (1549-1873): A Short Handbook. 1973. Oriens Institute for Religious Research. Tokyo. 245. 26 February 2020.
  4. Book: Molinari, Paolo. Companions of Jesus: Spiritual Profiles of the Jesuit Saints and Beati . 1974. English Province of the Society of Jesus. 49. 26 February 2020. Edmund Dignam. Joseph Gill. Charles Hand. Hugh Kay. Nicholas King. Michael McMorrow. Anthony Nye. Paul Symonds.
  5. Book: de Lucena, Afonso. Erinnerungen aus der Christenheit von Ōmura. 1972. Institutum historicum S.I.. Rome. 193. 26 February 2020. de. Josef Franz Schütte.
  6. Web site: St. James Kisai, martyr of Nagasaki, Japan with Paul Miki. Catholic News Agency. EWTN News, Inc.. 26 February 2020. 22 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200522111240/https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/martyrology_entry.php?n=596. dead.
  7. Book: Dewey. R. S.. The Pilgrim of Our Lady of Martyrs, Volume 5. 1889. Messenger of the Sacred Heart. Philadelphia, PA. 110.
  8. Book: Murdoch. James. Yamagata. Isoh. James Murdoch (Scottish journalist). A History of Japan: During the Century of Early Foreign Intercourse (1542-1651). 1903. Kobe Chronicle. Kobe, Japan.
  9. Book: Wiseman, Nicholas. Nicholas Wiseman. The Dublin Review. Vol. LII.. November 1862. Thomas Richardson and Son. 55. 26 February 2020. Rome on the Day of Pentecost.
  10. Web site: Site of the Martyrdom of the 26 Saints of Japan. Discover Nagasaki. 26 February 2020. 26 February 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200226170443/https://www.discover-nagasaki.com/spots/detail/208/. dead.
  11. News: St. Paul Miki and the 26 Martyrs of Japan, feast day Feb. 6. 26 February 2020. Catholic News Herald. 23 May 2016.

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