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Guillaume Courtet
Guillaume Courtet | |||||||||
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| Born | 1589-1590 Sérignan, Languedoc, France | ||||||||
| Died | 29th of September, 1637 Nagasaki, Hizen, Japan | ||||||||
| Cause of death | Beheading | ||||||||
| Venerated in | Catholic Church | ||||||||
| Beatified | 18 February 1981, Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines by Pope John Paul II | ||||||||
| Canonized | 18 October 1987, St. Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II | ||||||||
| Major shrine | Collégiale Notra-Dame-de-Grâce de Sérignan, Occitanie, France | ||||||||
| Feast | 28th September | ||||||||
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Guillaume Courtet, O.P. (1589–1637) was a French Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and missionary. One of the first Frenchman to have visited Japan,[1] he died as a martyr by beheading in Nagasaki at the hands of the Tokugawa Shogunate on Michaelmas Day 1637 after three days continuous torture.[2] He was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1987 as one of the 16 Martyrs of Japan.[3] He is celebrated annually on the September 28th as one of the 16 and on November 6th as one of the Thomasian Martyrs.
- ^ Philippe Pons, Le Monde des Livres, July 26, 2002, p.7. Original French:"Guillaume Courtet, le premier francais à avoir foulé le sol nippon, et qui y avait été martyrisé en 1637".
- ^ Polak 2001, p. 13
- ^ Butler's Lives of the Saints By Alban Butler, Paul Burns, p.259
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