Saint Philip of Jesus (Spanish: San Felipe de Jesús) was a Mexican Catholic missionary who became one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan the first Mexican saint and patron saint of Mexico City.Philip was born in Mexico City in 1572. Though unusually frivolous as a boy he joined the Reformed Franciscans of the Province of St. Didacus founded in Mexico by St. Peter Baptista with whom he suffered martyrdom later.
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