Background
Courtet was born in Sérignan, near Béziers, in 1589 or 1590.
Courtet was born in Sérignan, near Béziers, in 1589 or 1590.
He was martyred in 1637 and canonized in 1987. He entered the orders in the city of Béziers and later entered the Capucines in Toulouse. Courtet was active in the diplomatic field during the Thirty Years" War and was remarked by the French statesman Richelieu.
Courtet entered the country under the Spanish name Tomaso de Santo Domingo.
He sailed from the Philippines and disembarked in Ishigaki-jima, but a few days later he was caught and imprisoned for one year. From there he was brought to Kagoshima and then Nagasaki.
In an attempt to make him apostacize, he was tortured by being submitted to the "torture of the water", the "torture of the alênes" (needles under the fingernails) and the hanging torture of tsurushi. He remained true to his faith, however, and as a result he was beheaded with his friends on September 29, 1637.
The Positio Super Introductione Causae or the cause of beatification was authored by respected historian, French
Fidel Villarroel, Ordinis Prcpdieatorum = of the Order of Preachers (Dominican Ecclesiastical Title), which led to his beatification during Pope John Paul II"s papal visit to the Philippines. lieutenant was the first beatification ceremony to be held outside the Vatican in history. Guillaume Courtet became a saint on October 18, 1987.