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name: "Saint Thomas Xico"
id: "HIST-SAINT-THOMAS-XICO-001"
remembered_for: "One of the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan, crucified at Nagasaki on 5 February 1597."
birth_coordinate: "Kyōto, Japan (year not recorded)"
death_coordinate: "5 February 1597, Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan (martyr)"
eras: ["Martyrs of Japan (1597)"]
linked_figures: []
cosmic_vault_pillars:
  - "Historical Profiles"
image_portrait: "assets/images/profiles/saint_thomas_xico_portrait.webp"
image_context: "assets/images/profiles/saint_thomas_xico_context.webp"
source: "GCatholic.org, saint record: Saint Thomas Dangi. https://gcatholic.org/saints/data/saints-THO#65588 (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-THO#65588 ; https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft"
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# Saint Thomas Xico

*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: Thomas Xico, listed by GCatholic as Thomas Dangi
- Born: Kyōto, Japan (year not recorded)
- Died: 5 February 1597, Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan (martyr)
- State of life: Layperson of Nagasaki; member of the Secular Franciscans; catechist
- 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.

*Identification of Thomas Xico with the saint GCatholic lists as Thomas Dangi follows common usage of the name lists of the Twenty-Six Martyrs.*

## Sources

- GCatholic.org, saint record: Saint Thomas Dangi. https://gcatholic.org/saints/data/saints-THO#65588 (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].)