HENARES, Domingo, Blessed. - Spanish Dominican, titular bishop of Pesseita, pro-vicar apostolic of eastern Tonkin, martyred there on 25 June 1838.

Born at Baena (Cordova) on 19 Dec. 1765, in 1783 he entered the Order and in 1784 set out for the Philippines. Ordained at Manila (according to others at Vigan), he joined the blessed Delgado and reached Tonkin in 1790. Rector of the native college-seminary of Tien Chu, he was appointed pro-vicar in 1798 and on 9 Sept. 1800 was elected by Pius VII bishop and coadjutor of the apostolic vicar Delgado. After almost half a century of active apostolate he was beheaded at Nam Dinh. His remains, reassembled with the head that had been thrown into the Vi Hoang river and found by the faithful three days later, were buried at Luc-Thuy-Ha, and later in the episcopal residence of Bui-Chu. He was beatified by Leo XIII on 27 May 1900, together with other Annamite martyrs.

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BIBL.: J. Recorder, Vida y martirio de los XXVI Martires de la Mision Domenicana en el Tung-Kin, Manila 1900, pp. 72-234; anonymous, I martiri annamiti e cinesi solennemente beatificati... il 27 maggio 1900, Rome 1900, pp. 99-114.

Romeo Bellotti

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Henares, Domingo, Blessed

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