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name: "Saint Francis of Saint Michael"
id: "HIST-SAINT-FRANCIS-OF-SAINT-MICHAEL-001"
remembered_for: "One of the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan, crucified at Nagasaki on 5 February 1597."
birth_coordinate: "1543, la Parrilla, Valladolid, Spain"
death_coordinate: "5 February 1597, Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan (martyr; aged 53)"
eras: ["Martyrs of Japan (1597)"]
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source: "GCatholic.org, saint record: Saint Francisco de San Miguel Andrade Arco, O.F.M. Disc.. https://gcatholic.org/saints/data/saints-FRAN#65581 (accessed 2 October 2026); The Roman Martyrology, published by order of Gregory XIII, revised by Urban VIII and Clement X, augmented and corrected by Benedict XIV; translated from the Latin (Rome, 1914 edition) under the Archbishop of Baltimore. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. Public domain. Entry for 5 February. https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft (Transcribed from the archive.org scan text of the 1916 Baltimore edition; obvious OCR misreadings corrected, original misprints kept and marked [sic].)"
source_url: "https://gcatholic.org/saints/data/saints-FRAN#65581 ; https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft"
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# Saint Francis of Saint Michael

*Short verified facts only. No public-domain biography of this martyr is available, so no narrative is given.*

One of the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan, crucified at Nagasaki on 5 February 1597.

## Facts

- Name: Francisco de San Miguel Andrade Arco, O.F.M. Disc.
- Born: 1543, la Parrilla, Valladolid, Spain
- Died: 5 February 1597, Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan (martyr; aged 53)
- State of life: Religious of the Discalced Franciscans (O.F.M. Disc.)
- Beatified: 14 September 1627
- Canonized: 8 June 1862, by Pope Pius IX
- Feast: 6 February

## From the Roman Martyrology

*Roman Martyrology (English translation, Baltimore, 1916), 5 February:*

> In the kingdom of Japan, the passion of twenty-six martyrs, who, by being crucified for the Catholic faith, and pierced with lances, gloriously died in praising God and preaching that same faith. Pius IX. canonized them in 1862.

## Sources

- GCatholic.org, saint record: Saint Francisco de San Miguel Andrade Arco, O.F.M. Disc.. https://gcatholic.org/saints/data/saints-FRAN#65581 (accessed 2 October 2026)
- The Roman Martyrology, published by order of Gregory XIII, revised by Urban VIII and Clement X, augmented and corrected by Benedict XIV; translated from the Latin (Rome, 1914 edition) under the Archbishop of Baltimore. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. Public domain. Entry for 5 February. https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft (Transcribed from the archive.org scan text of the 1916 Baltimore edition; obvious OCR misreadings corrected, original misprints kept and marked [sic].)