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About St. Lorenzo Ruiz
c. 1600 – 29 September 1637 · Feast September 28 · Layman / Martyr
Filipino layman and martyr (c. 1600-1637), of Chinese-Filipino parentage from Binondo, Manila; calligrapher of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary who fled false murder charges by accompanying Dominican missionaries to Japan. Captured at Okinawa, tortured at Nagasaki and hanged inverted in a pit, refused apostasy. First Filipino saint and proto-martyr; canonized 1987 by John Paul II.
St. Lorenzo Ruiz is the patron saint of Philippines, Filipino Youth, Overseas Workers and Altar Servers.
