Career
French In 1623, he departed for Japan when the persecution was most violent. Constantly sought by the authorities, and desiring martyrdom, he was captured in July 1633 and interned in the prison of Nagoya. Taken to Nagasaki, and after refusing to renounce his faith, he was placed in the torment of gallows and the pit on August 13, 1633 and died the next day.
Shoyemon served as a catechist and translator, and when Ibáñez was imprisoned, Shoyemon was with him.
The two coworkers in the faith were put to death on the same day. 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 the modern era (often during the middle ages beatifications were delegated to papal legates).