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Giordano Ansalone

Italian Roman Catholic saint

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Saint
name	Giordano Ansalone
honorific_suffix	OP
image	San Giacinto Giordano Ansalone.jpg
caption	San Giacinto Giordano Ansalone
birth_date
birth_place	Santo Stefano Quisquina, Kingdom of Sicily
death_date
death_place	Nagasaki, Japan
death_cause	Tsurushi
feast_day	17 November
beatified_date	18 February 1981
beatified_place	Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines
beatified_by	Pope John Paul II
canonized_date	18 October 1987
canonized_place	St. Peter's Square, Vatican City
canonized_by	Pope John Paul II
venerated_in	Roman Catholic Church

Giordano di San Stefano Ansalone, OP (1598 – 17 November 1634) was an Italian Dominican missionary in Asia. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1981 and canonized in 1987 by Pope John Paul II.

Life

Ansalone was born at Santo Stefano Quisquina in Sicily. Having entered the Dominican Order and completed his studies at Salamanca, he was sent in 1625, together with many others, as a missionary to the Philippine Islands. Whilst serving as chaplain in a hospital for Chinese and Japanese at Manila he learned their languages.

In 1631, he offered to go to Japan and arrived at the outbreak of the persecution in 1632. Disguised as a bonze, he travelled over the land and administered the rites of the Catholic religion.

He was arrested 4 August 1634, and subjected to tortures that lasted seven days. He was forced to witness the beheading of his companion, Thomas of St. Hyacinth, and sixty-nine other Christians. On 18 November he was executed at Nagasaki, Japan, by being suspended till dead from a plank with his head buried in the ground.

Works

Whilst detained in Mexico, on his way to the Philippine Islands, he wrote in Latin a series of lives of Dominican saints after a similar work by . He left at Manila an unfinished treatise on Chinese religion.

References

;Attribution

The entry cites:
Quétif and Jacques Échard, Scriptores ordinis prædicatorum recensiti, notisque historicis illustrati ad annum 1700 auctoribus, II, 478:
Alvarez del Manzano, Compendio de la reseña biográfica de los religiosos de la Provincia de Santisimo Rosario de Filipinas (Manila, 1896), 122 sqq.

References

"San Giordano Ansalone su santiebeati.it".

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