Francesco Palliola, SJ (May 10, 1612 – January 29, 1648) was an Italian

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priest and missionary in

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. Due to his missionary work and

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s, the

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opened a cause for martyrdom on January 6, 2016, and was formally closed in September 2017 by Bishop Severo Caermare at the Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral in Dipolog City. The Vatican's

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has declared as valid the investigation into the beatification process for a 16th-century Jesuit missionary who served in Mindanao.

Life

Padre Francesco was born on 10 May 1612 in

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, Italy. Palliola was on his way home from Sindangan to Dapitan while riding a horse when a certain bandit, a converted native named ''Tampilo'', carrying a long ''bolo'' suddenly appeared, attacked, and beheaded him leading to his demise. The priest's body was then buried along the wide stretch of a beach at Sitio Tabang near the townsite and is still present today.

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File:Graveyard of Fr. Francisco Palliola, SJ in Jose Dalman, Zamboanga del Norte - Flickr.jpg, Grave of Francesco Palliola in present-day Jose Dalman, Zamboanga del Norte

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