Gonsalo Garcia

Saint Gonsalo Garcia O.F.M.
St Gonsalo Garcia of Bassein
Born	1556/1557 Bassein (Baçaim), Portuguese India Deccan Sultanates
Died	5 February 1597(1597-02-05) (aged 40) Nagasaki, Japan
Venerated in	Catholic Church
Beatified	14 September 1627 by Pope Urban VIII
Canonized	8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX
Major shrine	St. Gonsalo Garcia Church Gass, Vasai, India
Feast	6 February (along with other martyrs), 7 February (in India)
Patronage	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay, Indian Catholic Youth Movement (ICYM) East Indian Community

Gonsalo Garcia, O.F.M. (Portuguese: Gonçalo Garcia; 1556 – 5 February 1597),^[1] was a lay brother of the Franciscans from Portuguese Bombay and Bassein in early modern India. He died a Christian martyr in the 16th-century Shogunate of Japan, and was canonised a saint along with his companions, the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan.^[1] He was born at Bassein (Vasai), Baçaim in the Indo-Portuguese era, an exurban town of the present-day Greater Bombay metropolis.

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