Patronage
Patron Saint of Japan
The Catholic Church venerates St. Paul Miki as the patron saint of Japan. Patron saints are heavenly intercessors — believers entrust a place, profession, or struggle to a saint whose own life touched it, and ask for their prayers before God.
St. Paul Miki
Feast: February 6“A Japanese Jesuit seminarian and one of the Twenty-Six Martyrs crucified in Nagasaki during the persecution of Christians.”
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