BLESSED DOMINGO HENARES. - Spanish Dominican, titular bishop of Pesseta, apostolic pro-vicar of Eastern Tonkin, martyred there on 25 June 1838.
Born at Baena (Córdoba) on 19 Dec. 1765, he entered the Order in 1783 and departed for the Philippines in 1784. Ordained at Manila (according to others at Vigan), he joined Blessed Delgado and reached Tonkin in 1790. Rector of the indigenous college-seminary of Tien Chu, he was named pro-vicar in 1798 and on 9 Sept. 1800, by Pius VII, elected bishop and coadjutor to the apostolic vicar Delgado. After nearly half a century of active apostolate he was beheaded at Nam Dinh. His remains, reassembled with the head cast into the Vi Hoang River and recovered by the faithful three days later, were buried at Luc-Thuy-Ha and later transferred to the episcopal residence at Bui-Chu. Beatified by Leo XIII on 27 May 1900 together with other Annamite martyrs.