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- 1Remembering Lorenzo Ruiz, martyred in Japan in 1637●Lorenzo Ruiz, a Chinese-Filipino missionary, was executed OTD in 1637 by the Tokugawa Shogunate of # Japan https:// crom
Lorenzo Ruiz, a Chinese-Filipino Catholic missionary, was executed on this day in 1637 under Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate, which persecuted Christians at the time. Ruiz is honoured as the first Filipino saint, and the anniversary is being marked in history and travel discussions about Japan's persecution of Christians in the seventeenth century.