Francis Vernon Douglas (22 May 1910 – c. 27 July 1943) was a New Zealand priest of the Missionary Society of St. Columban who was killed in the Philippines by Japanese soldiers in 1943.

He was born in Johnsonville, in Wellington, the fifth of eight children (five sons and three daughters) of Kathleen (née Gaffney) and George Charles Douglas, an Australian-born railway worker.

Over three days in the Church of Saint James the Apostle in Paete, Laguna, he was beaten and tortured, the presumption being that police were trying to extort information from him about guerrillas whose confessions he may have heard.

[2] In collaboration with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington, the Columban Missionaries are preparing the steps in opening Douglas' cause for sainthood.

[3][4] He is honored for his steadfast devotion to his religious duties, and stands with Mother Mary Joseph Aubert and Emmet McHardy as one of the New Zealand Catholic Church’s three models of sanctity.