Guillaume Courtet

Saint

Guillaume Courtet

OP
Venerated inCatholic Church
Martyrdom of Guillaume Courtet, in Nagasaki, 1637.
Statue of Guillaume Courtet, in Sérignan, erected in 1894.

Guillaume Courtet, OP (1589–1637) was a French Dominican priest who has been described as the first Frenchman to have visited Japan.[1][2] He was martyred in 1637 and canonized in 1987.[3]

  1. ^ Polak 2001, p. 13
  2. ^ Philippe Pons, Le Monde des Livres, July 26, 2002, p.7. Original French:"Guillaume Courtet, le premier francais à avoir foulé le sol nippon, et qui y avait été martyrisé en 1637".
  3. ^ Butler's Lives of the Saints By Alban Butler, Paul Burns, p.259