The Blessed Denis of the Nativity O.C.D. (also Dionysius) (12 December 1600 – 27 November 1638) was a French sailor and cartographer for the king of Portugal who later became a Discalced Carmelite friar. He was killed in Sumatra while taking part in a diplomatic mission there on behalf of the Portuguese Empire. He was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1900.
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