Gonsalo Garcia was a 16th-century Franciscan lay brother born in Bassein, India, to a Portuguese father and an Indian mother. After serving as a catechist and later working as a successful merchant in Alacao, he joined the Order of Friars Minor. Because of his fluency in Japanese, he accompanied Spanish missionaries from Manila to Japan to assist in their evangelical work. He was eventually arrested during a period of intense religious persecution and was executed in Nagasaki.