Mother ignacia del espiritu santo short biography

Today 
we are gathered in a Eucharistic celebration in this old Church of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Binondo where a man older than Ignacia was baptized some 60 years before she was christened.

As a little boy who grew up playing in Binondo’s Churchyard (patio), he was later noticed as a very friendly and helpful young man by the Dominican Fathers who trusted him and finally recruited him as catechist and sexton (sacristan).

Binondo: Origin of the First Saints
When the first child of Jose Iuco (Yu Kho), a Chinese Christian and Maria Geronima, a local Tagala was baptized on March 4, 1663
as Ignacia in honor of St. Ignatius of Antioch, the man who was
a catechist and sacristan was no longer a resident and parishioner of Binondo.

All that lingered in Binondo about the him was the memory of a catechist-sacristan who traveled with the Spanish Dominican missionaries to the island of Formosa and later to Japan, where he lost his life in a massacre o