Francis Ferdinand de Capillas
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Francis Ferdinand de Capillas, O.P. (1607-1648), was a Castilian Christian missionary to China. He was the first Roman Catholic martyr killed in China. He was beatified by Pope Pius X in 1909, and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000 as the protomartyr of the 134 Martyrs of China.
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- Francis Ferdinand de Capillas. Patron Saint Index. Retrieved on 2006-05-06.
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