MINITASK #1
St. Lorenzo Ruiz – is a filipino saint who died with unwavering faith and became a martyr . I want to have unwavering faith just like him
St. Pedro Calungsod – is another filipino saint who was killed because of his strong faith. I want to have his courage someday.
St. Joseph – The most chaste spouse of mama mary . I want to be chaste just like him.
St. Padre Pio – is deeply religious and very consistent with praying and praying the rosary.
MINITASK #2
St. Lorenzo Ruiz
Name: St. Lorenzo Ruiz
Born: Binondo, Manila
Died: September 29, 1637 at Nagasaki japan
Parents: Eutropio Anicio, Claudia Abondantia Reguardati
Date Beatified: February 18 , 1981, Manila by Pope John Paul II
Date of Canonization: October 18 , 1987, Vatican city by Pope John Paul II
Feast day: September , 28
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 years, they were transferred to Nagasaki to face trial by torture. The group endured many and various cruel methods of torture.
On 27 September 1637, Ruiz and his companions were taken to Nishizaka Hill, where they were tortured by being hung upside-down over a pit. This form of torture was known as “tsurushi” (釣殺し) in Japanese or horca y hoya (“gallows and pit”) in Spanish. The method, alleged to have been extremely painful, had the victim bound; one hand was always left free so that the individual may signal their desire to recant, leading to their release. Despite his suffering, Ruiz refused to renounce Christianity and died from eventual blood loss and suffocation. His body was cremated, with the ashes thrown into the sea.
According to Latin missionary accounts sent back to Manila, Ruiz declared these words upon his death:
Ego Catholicus sum et animo prompto paratoque pro Deo mortem obibo.
Si mille vitas haberem, cunctas ei offerrem.
(I am a Catholic and wholeheartedly do accept death for God;
Had I a thousand lives, all these to Him shall I offer.)
BAMBINO FESTIVAL 