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(An artist illustation of Saint Lorenzo  Ruiz.) 
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Ruiz was subjected to water torture. Needles were inserted through his finger nails and was beaten until unconsciousness.
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Despite the torture inflicted on him, Ruiz did not renounce his Christian faith.
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Ruiz body was cremated and the ashes were thrown into the sea.
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In 1636, while working as a clerk for Binondo Church, Ruiz was falsely accused of killing a Spaniard.  He sought asylum on board a ship with three Dominican priests: Saint Antonio Gonzalez; Saint Guillermo Cortet; Saint Miguel de Aozaraza, a Japanese priest; Saint Vicente Shiwozuka de la Cruz; and a lay leper Saint Lazaro of Kyoto. Ruiz and his companions left for Okinawa on June 10, 1636.
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His boat landed at Okinawa at the time when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate" class="news_link" target="_blank" title="Tokugawa shogunate">Tokugawa shogunate</a> was persecuting Christians.  The missionaries were arrested and thrown into prison, and later transferred to Nagasaki to face trial by torture.
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Today in History Philippine September 29, 1637, Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino Saint, was hung upside down to death in Nagasaki, Japan