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Garcia, Gonsalo, Saint, 1556-1597

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Personal name headingGarcia, Gonsalo, Saint, 1556-1597
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Variant(s)Garcia, Gundi Slavus, Saint, 1556-1597
García, Gonzalo, Saint, 1556-1597
Garcia, Gonçalo, Saint, 1556-1597
Associated countryIndia Japan
Associated placePortuguese India
Birth date1556
Death date1597-02-05
Found inGonsalo Garcia, between 1997 and 2011: cover (a saint from Vasai)
Wikipedia, viewed Apr. 29, 2011: under Gonsalo Garcia (Saint Gonsalo Garcia (1556-5 February 1597) was a Roman Catholic saint from India; born Gundi Slavus Garcia; martyred in 1597)
Aguiar Mariño, Nina. San Gonzalo García, 2020: page 11 (San Gonzalo García; b. 1556 or 1557 in Bassein, India; d. Feb. 5, 1597)
Wikipedia, June 9, 2021 (Gonsalo Garcia, O.F.M. (Portuguese: Gonçalo Garcia; 1556 - 5 February 1597), was a Franciscan lay brother from Portuguese India, who died as a martyr in Japan and is venerated as a saint, one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan so venerated. The first Indian born to attain sainthood was born in the western coastal town of Baçaim, later Bassein in English (now known as Vasai, an exurb of the city of Mumbai. During his lifetime, the town was under Portuguese colonial rule)