Paul Miki, Jesuit scholastic, and his twenty-five companions, including two other Jesuits, six Franciscans, fifteen tertiaries, and two laymen, were crucified by order of the ruler Hideyoshi 5 Feb. 1597 at Nagasaki; among them, the Mexican, Felipe de Jesús, the first martyr from the Americas to be beatified; protomartyrs of the Far East (canonized in 1862 by Pope Pius IX).