Francisco Pacheco

Francisco Pacheco (1565–1626) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr executed in Japan during the religious persecutions against Catholics.

At only ten years old, upon learning that his uncle, Father Diogo de Mesquita—his mother's brother —had been martyred in Japan, he vowed to follow his example.

At the age of twenty, he entered the Society of Jesus in Coimbra,

They were beatified in 1867 by Pope Pius IX.