Clergy of the Society of Jesus who worked in Japan. He died in Shimabara, on 1 November 1622. He was admitted shortly before his martyrdom, and died burned alive, together with Father Pedro Paulo Navarro.

Bibliography:

COSTA, João Paulo Oliveira e, O Cristianismo no Japão e o Episcopado de D. Luís de Cerqueira, dissertação de doutoramento em História apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, 1998 (texto fotocopiado).

Author: Helena Rodrigues
Translated by: Leonor Sampaio da Silva