Saints Sept. 28, Bl. Thiemo, Bl. Magdalena of Nagasaki, St. Lorenzo Ruiz and others, St. Fr. Jacobo Kyushei, Saint Simón de Rojas, St. Raymond Li-Ts'Uan, St. John of Dukla

 Bl. Thiemo, Benedictine bishop and martyr. Journeying to Palestine to aid the crusading movement, he was captured by the Muslims and imprisoned at Ascalon (modern Israel). Tortured for a long time, he was finally killed for refusing to abjure the faith.

Bl. Magdalena of Nagasaki, Japan. Magdalene turned herself into the authorities and declared herself a follower of Jesus Christ. At age 23, she died on October 16, 1634 after thirteen days of torture, suffocated to death and suspended upside down in a pit of offal on a gibbet (tsurushi, "reverse hanging").

St. Lorenzo Ruiz, Martyr of Japan with Michael Aozaraza, Anthony Gonzales, William Cowtet, Vincent Shiwozuka, Lazarus and others. Lawrence was born in Manila, the Philippines. He and his companions were tortured and slain on Okinawa.

St. Fr. Jacobo Kyushei Gorobioye Tomonaga de Santa María After 1614,  Ordained priest in 1626 he returned to Japan his native country in 1632, risking his life for the service of God and the conversion of souls. After one year of difficult apostolate in the midst of dangers, privations and sufferings, his hiding place was discovered by the authorities through the revelations of his own catechist Arrested in July 1633, he was put to the torture of the gallows and the pit on August 15, 1633; expiring after two days of agony.

Saint Simón de Rojas O.SS.T. (28 October 1552 – 29 September 1624) was a Spanish priest of the Trinitarian Order known as the "Apostle of the Ave Maria", for his devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Simón was a theologian and a spiritual writer, as well as a friend and benefactor of the poor.

St. Raymond Li-Ts'Uan, Chinese Martyr.

St. John of Dukla, He is one of the patron saints of Poland and Lithuania.