Baquerín de Campos is a municipality located in the
province of Palencia
Palencia is a province of northern Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered by the provinces of León, Cantabria, Burgos, and Valladolid.
Overvie ...
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Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004
census
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(
INE
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), the municipality had a population of 24 inhabitants.
It is the birthplace of the
protomartyr
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saint of
China Francis Ferdinand de Capillas
Francis Fernández (or Ferdinand) de Capillas (15 August 1607 – 15 January 1648) was a Spanish Dominican friar who went as a missionary to Asia. He died in China as a martyr. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 1 October 2000, as one of th ...
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References
Municipalities in the Province of Palencia
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