Bartholomew Gutierrez
16th-century Augustinian and martyr
About Bartholomew Gutierrez
Lived 1580 – 1632 (aged 51–52).
Bartolomé Gutiérrez Rodríguez (1580 Mexico City-1632 Nagasaki, Japan) was an Augustinian friar who was beatified in 1867.
Life He was born in Mexico City, the son of Alfonso Gutiérrez and his wife Ana Rodríguez. He joined the Order of St Augustine in 1596 at the age of sixteen. He was ordained a priest and sent to Puebla, but wished to become a missionary. His colleagues teased him because of his corpulence, but he was undeterred.
He was arrested in 1629 and imprisoned in Omura. Bartholomew Gutierrez is mentioned as one of 205 martyrs of Japan. He was scalded in boiling water then burnt alive in Nagasaki.
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Who was Bartholomew Gutierrez?
16th-century Augustinian and martyr
When was Bartholomew Gutierrez born?
Bartholomew Gutierrez was born in 1580 in Mexico City.
When did Bartholomew Gutierrez die?
Bartholomew Gutierrez died on 3 September 1632 in Nagasaki.
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