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Peter Baptist was born in Spain in 1542. After his ordination he went as a missionary to Mexico and then to the Philippines. With five companions he undertook missionary work in Japan in 1593 where he built several churches and hospitals. In an atmosphere of religious unrest and political upheaval, arrests were made and the six Franciscans with three Jesuits and fifteen members of the Third Order were all sent to Nagasaki, paraded as a public spectacle, and then crucified on 5 February 1597. They were canonized by Blessed Pope Pius IX in 1862.