feast day: September 28
about:
- also known as Laurentius Ruiz de Manila or San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila
- first Filipino saint venerated in the Roman Catholic Church
- the protomartyr of the Philippines
- born in Binondo, Manila during the 1600's
- an altar boy -> calligrapher -> Binondo church clerk -> missionary -> martyr (got tortured by being hung upside down a pit...died from blood loss and suffocation in Japan)
patron of: Philippines, Filipino people
quote:
according to a 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 the Lord; Had I a thousand lives, all these I shall offer to Him.}
links/ sources:
- "Lorenzo Ruiz" (source: Wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Ruiz
- "St. Lorenzo Ruiz" (source: Catholic Online):
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=231
- "Prayer to San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila" (source: Chapel of San Lorenzo Ruiz):
http://www.chapelofsanlorenzoruiz.org/prayer.html
