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VIDAL DE FIGUEROA, Antonio

Novena en honra de el invicto, y glorioso proto-martyr del Japon San Felipe de Jesus.

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Dispuesta por el P. Antonio Vidal de Figueroa, Presbitero, de la Congregacion de el Oratorio de San Felipe Neri, de esta Ciudad de México. Año 1711. Con licencia en Mexico : por los Herederes de Juan Joseph Guillena Carrascoso, 1711. Duodecimo (144 x 96 mm), marbled paper wrappers; title-leaf, pp. 30; a fine copy.

A novena (devotional prayer intended to be recited over nine days) in honour of St. Felipe de Jesús, one of the 26 Martyrs of Japan crucified in Nagasaki on 5 February, 1597. Recognised as the first Mexican-born saint, he is also the patron saint of Mexico City, where the pamphlet was published.