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 martyr killed in China. He was beatified by Pope 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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