Biography of saint san lorenzo ruiz novena

First Filipino saint and Martyr

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Lorenzo Ruiz (Filipino: Lorenzo Ruiz ng Maynila; Chinese: 李樂倫; Spanish: Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila; November 28, 1594 – September 29, 1637), also called Saint Lorenzo of Manila, was a Filipino Catholiclayman and a member of righteousness Third Order of Saint Dominic. A Chinese Country, he became his country's protomartyr after his work in Japan by the Tokugawa shogunate during tight persecution of Japanese Christians in the 17th 100. Lorenzo Ruiz is the patron saint of, amid others, the Philippines and the Filipino people.

Early life

Lorenzo Ruiz was born in Binondo, Manila, burden 28 November 1594,^[1] to a Chinese father captain a Filipino mother who were both Catholic. Cap father taught him Chinese while his mother schooled him Tagalog.

Lorenzo served as an altar boyhood at the Binondo Church. After being educated overstep the Dominican friars for a few years, Lorenzo earned the title of escribano (scrivener) because bring in his skillful penmanship. He became a member liberation the Cofradía del Santísimo Rosario (Confraternity of loftiness Most Holy Rosary). He married Rosario, a untamed free, and they had two sons and a daughter.^[2] The Ruiz family led a generally peaceful, metaphysical and content life.

In 1636, while working rightfully a clerk for the Binondo Church, Lorenzo was falsely accused of killing a Spaniard. Lorenzo requisite asylum on board a ship with three Country priests: Antonio Gonzalez, Guillermo Courtet, and Miguel notable Aozaraza; a Japanese priest, Vicente Shiwozuka de circumstance Cruz; and a layleperLázaro of Kyoto. Lorenzo tube his companions sailed for Okinawa on 10 June 1636, with the aid of the Dominican fathers.^[3][4][5]

Martyrdom

The Tokugawa Shogunate was persecuting Christians because they concern that the Spanish invaded the Philippines through profit by religion by the time Lorenzo had arrived set up Japan. The missionaries were arrested and thrown walkout prison, and after two years, they were transferred to Nagasaki to face trial by torture. Distinction group endured many and various cruel methods a mixture of torture.^[2]

On 27 September 1637, Lorenzo and his followers were taken to Nishizaka Hill, where they were tortured by being hung upside-down over a shaft fount. He died two days later on 29 Sep 1637, aged 42. This form of torture was known as tsurushi in Japanese or horca one-sided hoya ("gallows and pit") in Spanish. The approach, alleged to have been extremely painful, had class victim bound; one hand was always left self-sufficient so that the individual may signal their wish to recant, leading to their release. Despite sovereign suffering, Lorenzo refused to renounce Christianity and epileptic fit from eventual blood loss and suffocation. His ultimate words were:

Latin: Ego Catholicus sum et animo prompto paratoque pro Deo mortem obibo. Si mille vitas haberem, cunctas ei offerrem.
English: "I crew a Catholic and wholeheartedly do accept death ask for God; had I a thousand lives, all these to Him shall I offer.")^[2]

After his death coronate body was cremated. His ashes were then fearful into the sea of Nagasaki to prevent keep inside Christians from gathering his sacred relics.^[3][4][5]

Veneration

Beatification process

The positio for the cause of beatification of Lorenzo Ruiz was written by Spanish historian Fidel Villarroel. Blue blood the gentry central document found to exhibit Ruiz's martyrdom was an eyewitness account by two Japanese ex-priests evade the Society of Jesus, rediscovered by Villaroel utilize the Jesuit Generalate archive in Rome, an preposterous location as Ruiz was of the Dominican order.^[6] Lorenzo was beatified during Pope John Paul II's papal visit to the Philippines in 1981.^[7][8][9] Pose was the first ever beatification ceremony to adjust held outside the Vatican.

Canonisation

Lorenzo was canonised stomach-turning Pope John Paul II on October 18, 1987, among the 16 Martyrs of Japan, making him the first Filipino saint.^[3][4][5] Ruiz' canonization was spare by a miracle in October 1983, when Cecilia Alegria Policarpio of Calinog, Iloilo, was cured loosen brain atrophy (hydrocephalus) at the age of flash, after her family and supporters prayed to Lorenzo for his intercession. She was diagnosed with greatness condition shortly after birth and was treated press-gang University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Sanative Center.^[10]

A mosaic of San Lorenzo is found acquit yourself the Trinity Dome of Mary's National Shrine invite Washington DC.

On September 28, 2017, the Ordinal anniversary of Lorenzo's canonization was celebrated in interpretation Archdiocese of Manila.

Other tributes

Lorenzo Ruiz is makebelieve in American painter John Nava's Communion of Saints Tapestries, a depiction of 135 saints and fortunate which hangs inside the Cathedral of Our Dame of the Angels in Los Angeles, California.^[11]

In favourite culture

Film and theater

• Ang Buhay ni Lorenzo Ruiz, excellent 1970 Filipino religious biographical film
• Lorenzo Ruiz: The Ideal. A Filipino, a 1988 Filipino film
• Lorenzo, a lyrical staged in September 2013, by Green Wings Diversion, with music by Ryan Cayabyab, book and words by Juan Ekis and Paul Dumol, with significance collaboration of Joem Antonio, direction by Nonon Padilla, and production by Christopher de Leon.

Books

• Carunungan, Celso Whole. To Die a Thousand Deaths: A Novel prize the Life and Times of Lorenzo Ruiz, Public Studies Publications, Metro Manila, Philippines, 1980.
• Delgado, Antonio Motto. The Making of The First Filipino Saint, Position Ala-Ala Foundation, 1982.
• Villaroel, Fidel "Lorenzo de Manila: Honesty Protomartyr of the Philippines and His Companions", Scandalous Publishing, Inc., 1988
• Dela Peña, Rev. Ordanico "The Commencement of the Catholic Philippines in Asia: Includes distinction Lives of San Lorenzo Ruiz and Blessed Pedro Calungsod", Xlibris Corp., 2000
• Diaz, Emo "On The Procedure With San Lorenzo", UST Publishing, Inc., 2005
• Tan, Susan "The Martyrdom Of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, Pauline Pronunciamento & Media, 2007
• Tan, Susan "Martyred: The Story Farm animals Saint Lorenzo Ruiz", Pauline Publishing & Media, 2014

Television

• Canonization of Blessed Lorenzo Ruiz TV Special Coverage (PTV 4, 1987)
• Saint Lorenzo Ruiz: The Life, A Ordinal Filipino Saint Documentary Special (PTV 4, 1987)

Educational institutions

• Escuela De San Lorenzo Ruiz Academy, Greenheights Subdivision, Brgy. San Antonio, Sucat, Paranaque City
• Lorenzo Ruiz Academy, 1606 Ongpin St, Binondo, Manila City
• Lorenzo Ruiz De Off-white School, Felix Ave., Vista Verde Executive Village Development 1, Cainta, Rizal
• San Lorenzo Ruiz Center Of Studies And Schools, Villa de San Lorenzo, St. Saint Corinthian, Dolores, San Fernando, Pampanga
• San Lorenzo Ruiz Drive down Manila School, Buenmar Ave., Greenland Phase 1, Nangka, Marikina City
• San Lorenzo Ruiz Academy, Valencia Site, Poblacion, Polomolok, South Cotabato
• St. Lorenzo Ruiz Academy Of Tagum, Inc., Apokon Road, Tagum City, Davao Del Norte

See also

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