1) San Lorenzo Ruiz was the first Filipino saint who was falsely accused of killing a Spaniard in Manila in the 1600s and sought asylum on a ship, eventually being tortured and killed in Nagasaki, Japan. 2) Pedro Calungsod was a Filipino catechist who accompanied Jesuit missionaries to Guam in 1668 and was killed along with a priest in 1672 after baptizing children against a village ruler's wishes. 3) Early Christians faced persecution in the Roman Empire if they refused to honor the emperor as a god, and were imprisoned, exiled, and martyred for their faith, with many stories of their deaths being passed down.