Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga


Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga de Santa María

Bornc. 1582
Kuidetsu, Ōmura Domain, Hizen Province (modern Ōmura, Nagasaki), Japan
Died(1633-08-17)17 August 1633
Nagasaki, Hizen Province, Japan
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Beatified18 February 1981, Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines by Pope John Paul II
Canonized18 October 1987, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Major shrineMinor Basilica of the National Shrine of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, Binondo, Manila, Philippines
Feast17 August

Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga de Santa María, OP (Japanese: ヤコボ・デ・サンタ・マリア朝長五郎兵衛, Yakobo de Santa Maria Tomonaga Gorōbyōe; c. 1582 – August 17, 1633) was a Japanese Dominican friar and Catholic priest. He worked on the 1630 Spanish edition of the Nippo Jisho, one of the first modern Japanese dictionaries. He was martyred in 1633.