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Lorenzo Ruiz
For the municipality in the Philippines, see San Lorenzo In 1636, whilst working as a clerk for Binondo Church,
Ruiz, Camarines Norte. For the school in the Philip- Ruiz was falsely accused of killing a Spaniard. Ruiz
pines, see Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila School.
sought asylum on board a ship with three Dominican
priests: Saint Antonio Gonzalez; Saint Guillermo
Courtet; Saint Miguel de Aozaraza, a Japanese priest;
Saint Lorenzo Ruiz (ca. 1600 – 29 September 1637),
also known as Laurentius Ruiz de Manila or San Saint Vicente Shiwozuka de la Cruz; and a lay leper
Saint Lazaro of Kyoto. Ruiz and his companions left for
Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila, is the first Filipino saint venthe aid of the Dominican
erated in the Roman Catholic Church; he is thus the Okinawa on 10 June 1636, with[1][2][4]
fathers
and
Fr
Giovanni
Yago.
protomartyr of the Philippines. He had gone to Japan
with three missionaries and was killed for refusing to renounce his Roman Catholic beliefs during the persecution
of Japanese Christians under the Tokugawa Shogunate in
the 17th century.
2 Martyrdom
Saint Lorenzo is patron saint of, among others, the Philippines and the Filipino people.
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Early life
Image of Ruiz, Convent of St James the Apostle Parish, Plaridel,
Bulacan.
The Tokugawa shogunate was persecuting Christians by
the time Ruiz had arrived in Japan. The missionaries were
arrested and thrown into prison, and after two year, they
were transferred to Nagasaki to face trial by torture. He
and his companions faced different types of torture.[3]
Binondo Church, the main shrine of St. Lorenzo Ruiz
Lorenzo Ruiz was born in Binondo, Manila to a Chinese
father and a Filipino mother who were both Catholic. His
father taught him Chinese while his mother taught him
Tagalog.[1][2]
On 27 September 1637, Ruiz and his companions were
taken to the Nishizaka Hill, where they were tortured by
being hung upside down a pit. This form of torture was
) in Japanese or horca y hoya
known as tsurushi (
in Spanish. The method was supposed to be extremely
painful: though the victim was bound, one hand was always left free so that victims may signal their desire to
recant, leading to their release. Ruiz refused to renounce
Christianity and died from blood loss and suffocation.
His body was cremated and his ashes thrown into the
sea.[1][2][4]
Ruiz served as an altar boy at the convent of Binondo
church. After being educated by the Dominican friars for a few years, Ruiz earned the title of escribano
(calligrapher) because of his skillful penmanship. He became a member of the Cofradia del Santissimo Rosario
(Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary). He married
Rosario, a native, and they had two sons and a daughter.[3]
The Ruiz family lead a generally peaceful, religious and According to Latin missionary accounts sent back to
content life.
Manila, Ruiz declared these words upon his death:
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OTHER TRIBUTES TO SAINT LORENZO
"Ego Catholicus sum et animo prompto paratoque pro Deo Lorenzo Ruiz. She was diagnosed shortly after her birth
mortem obibo. Si mille vitas haberem, cunctas ei offer- and was treated at Magsaysay Medical Center.[8]
rem." {I am a Catholic and wholeheartedly do accept
death for the Lord; Had I a thousand lives, all these I shall
offer to Him.}[3]
4 Places and things named after
Lorenzo Ruiz
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3.1
Path to sainthood
Cause of beatification and canonization
• Chapel of San Lorenzo Ruiz, a Catholic church in
New York City, opened in 2005
• Colegio de San Lorenzo, a Catholic college in
Quezon City, founded in 1988
• Escuela de San Lorenzo Ruiz Paranaque, Sanchez
Ave, Greenheights Subd, Sucat, Paranaqque City,
founded in 1988
• Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila School, a Catholic school
in Cainta, Rizal, founded in 1990
• Plaza San Lorenzo Ruiz, a plaza in front of Binondo
Church, Manila
• San Lorenzo Ruiz, Camarines Norte, a municipality
in the province of Camarines Norte
• San Lorenzo Ruiz, Taytay, Rizal
• San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila Parish Church, a
Catholic church in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan
• San Lorenzo Ruiz Diocesan Church, a Catholic
church in Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur
• San Lorenzo Ruiz Elementary School, a Catholic
school in Mississauga, Ontario
• St. Lorenzo Ruiz Catholic Church, a Catholic
church in Walnut, California[9]
• San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila Community Center, a
community center in Sugar Land, Texas
A painting of Ruiz in the stairway of San Carlos Seminary,
Makati City.
• San Lorenzo Ruiz Montessori,
Bulakan,Bulacan
Inc.
in
• San Lorenzo School, a non-sectarian school in San
The Positio Super Introductione Causae or the cause of
Pedro, Laguna
beatification of St. Lorenzo Ruiz was written by respected historian, Fr. Fidel Villarroel, O.P. Ruiz was
• San Lorenzo Ruiz Chapel, Imnajbu, Batanes
beatified during Pope John Paul II's papal visit to the
Philippines.[5][6][7] It was the first beatification ceremony
to be held outside the Vatican in history. San Lorenzo
5 Other tributes to Saint Lorenzo
Ruiz was canonized by the same pope in Vatican City
on 18 October 1987, making him the first Filipino
Lorenzo Ruiz is included in American painter John
saint.[1][2][4]
Nava's Communion of Saints Tapestries, a depiction of
135 saints and beati which hangs inside the Cathedral of
Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California.[10]
3.2 Miracle
His canonization was based on a miracle that took place
in 1983, when Cecilia Alegria Policarpio, a 2-year-old
girl suffering brain atrophy (hydrocephalus), was cured
through the intercession of the family and supporters to
On 28 September 2007, the Catholic Church celebrated
the 20th anniversary of Ruiz’s canonisation. ThenArchbishop of Manila Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales said:
“Kahit saan nandoon ang mga Pilipino, ang katapatan sa
Diyos ay dala-dala ng Pinoy.”[11]
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In popular culture
6.1
Film
[4] Filipino Apostolate/Archdiocese of New York, Chapel
of San Lorenzo Ruiz, ChapelofSanLorenzoRuiz.org, retrieved on: 9 June 2007
[5]
• Ang Buhay ni Lorenzo Ruiz a 1970 Philippine film
• Lorenzo Ruiz... The Saint... A Filipino!, a 1988
Philippine film
• In September 2013, LORENZO, a musical about the
life of St. Lorenzo Ruiz, was staged by Green Wings
Entertainment, with music by Ryan Cayabyab, book
and lyric by Juan Ekis and Paul Dumol with the
collaboration of Joem Antonio, direction by Nonon
Padilla, and production by Christopher de Leon.
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• Delgado, Antonio C. The Making of The First Filipino Saint, The Ala-Ala Foundation, 1982
[8] thepinoycatholic.blogspot.com on St. Lorenzo Ruiz
[9] Saint Lorenzo Parish Community
[10] image of St. Lorenzo Ruiz in the Communion of Saints
Tapestries
[11] “Church marks 20th anniversary of Lorenzo Ruiz sainthood”
9 External links
• Cause for Beatification
• Mosaic in Saint Peter’s Basilica
• St. Lorenzo Ruiz in the Communion of Saints
Tapestries
• Ignacia del Espiritu Santo
• St. Lorenzo Ruiz Prayer in times of adversity.
Translated into Spanish by José Tlatelpas, traditional version in English and Tagalog. Published in
the Canadian Hispanic webzine “La Guirnalda Polar”.
• Jerónima de la Asunción
• Lorenzo Ruiz at Find a Grave
• Kakure Kirishitan
• LORENZO, a musical on the life of Lorenzo Ruiz
• Martha de San Bernardo, the first Filipino nun
•
See also
• Martyrs of Japan
• Pedro Calungsod, the second Filipino saint
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[7]
Books
• Carunungan, Celso Al. To Die a Thousand Deaths:
A Novel on the Life and Times of Lorenzo Ruiz,
Social Studies Publications, Metro Manila, Philippines, 1980
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[6]
References
[1] “Visit of Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to Participate in the 2005 World Summit - High
Level plenary session of the 60th Session of the United
Nations General Assembly, New York, United States of
America, 12–15 September 2005”, Press Kit, Office of
the President, Government Mass Media Group, Bureau
of Communications Services, Manila, September, 2005.
[2] Religion-Cults.com Dominguez, J, M.D., September 28:
Saints of the Day, Saint Lorenzo Ruiz and Companions,
1600-1637, Religion-Cults.com, retrieved on: 10 June
2007
[3] Foley O.F.M., Leonard. Saint of the Day, Lives, Lessons
and Feast, (revised by Pat McCloskey O.F.M), Franciscan
Media
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