Pedro Zuñiga and Luis Flores, priests and martyrs

Biography

Pedro Zúñiga was born in Seville. His father was viceroy of New Spain and Peru. Upon finishing his priestly studies in the Order of Saint Augustine, he was sent to Manila in 1610. Luis Flores was born in Antwerp (Belgium). In Mexico City he entered the Order of Saint Dominic and in 1598 he went to the Philippine Islands. The two, Pedro and Luis, tried to get to Japan, disguised, in a small boat, but they were discovered and handed over to a Japanese chief, who ordered them to be killed over slow fire.