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THE DOMINICAN YEAR Month of June

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1 June B. ALPHONSUS NAVARRETE Friar and Priest Martyr of Japan. (+1617) These three martyrs were beheaded for the sake of the Christian faith at Omura (Japan) on 1 June, 1617. They were the first group of martyrs to give witness to the faith of the so-called “Great Persecution in Japan” consisting of 205 martyrs who were beatified in 1866. (1571-1617) B. Alphonso Navarrete was born in Logroño (Spain) in 1571. He entered the Order of Preachers at Valladolid and was ordained a priest. He volunteered to the missions in the Far East and transfiliated to the Province of Our Lady of the Rosary and was sent to the Philippines. He began to do missionary work in the islands especially in the Dominican missions of the Cagayan Valley but had to return to Manila due to ill health. He petitioned his superiors to allow him to return Spain for treatment. Though he was allowed to return to Europe, he was tasked to recruit volunteers to the mission and to lead another “barcada”
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THE DOMINICAN YEAR month of May

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1 May S. AUGUSTINE SCHOEFFLER Priest and Martyr (1822-1851) S. Augustine Schoeffler was born at Mittelborn, Lorraine, (France) in 1822. As a young boy he entered the minor seminary and studied near Nancy, where he joined the III Order of St Dominic in whose spirit he made an effort to confirm his spirituality and desire for holiness. In order to realize his great desire to go to the missions, in 1846 he joined the Paris Foreign Mission Society where his finished his studies and received his ordination on 29 May , 1847. He was immediately sent to Tunkin (present- day Viet nam).   He learned the language and after three years began to minister to the towns, villages of the district until the time of religious persecutions. In 1851, at the height of the second wave of bloody Christian persecutions under emperor Tu-Duc, S. Augustine was detained and was condemned for having introduced Christianity into the country and having preached a prohibited religion.   He wa
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