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  2. 26 Martyrs of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Church of England also celebrates the Japanese martyrs liturgically with a commemoration on February 6. [11] The Anglican Church in Japan (Nippon Sei Ko Kai), a member of the Anglican Communion, added them to its calendar in 1959 as an annual February 5 commemoration of all the martyrs of Japan and the Episcopal Church followed suit. [12]

  3. Martyrs of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Martyrs of Japan (Japanese: 日本の殉教者, Hepburn: Nihon no junkyōsha) were Christian missionaries and followers who were persecuted and executed, mostly during the Tokugawa shogunate period in the 17th century. The Japanese saw the rituals of the Christians causing people to pray, close their eyes with the sign of the cross and lock ...

  4. 205 Martyrs of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The persecution of Missionaries and Christian followers continued after the martyrdom of the twenty-six individuals in 1597. Jesuit fathers and others who had successfully fled to the Philippines wrote reports which led to a pamphlet that was printed in Madrid in 1624 "A Short Account of the Great and Rigorous Martyrdom, which last year (1622) was suffered in Japan by One Hundred and Eighteen ...

  5. 16 Martyrs of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The 26 Martyrs Museum in Nagasaki City, Japan; Catholic Bishops Conference of Japan: Timeline of the Catholic Church in Japan; Daughters of St. Paul Convent, Tokyo, Japan: Prohibition of Christian religion by Hideyoshi and the 26 martyrs Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Japanese Martyrs". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

  6. Oura Church - Wikipedia

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    In December 1862, two French priests from the Société des Missions Étrangères, Fathers Louis Furet and Bernard Petitjean, were assigned from Yokohama to Nagasaki with the intention of building a church honoring the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan (eight European priests, one Mexican priest and seventeen Japanese Christians who were crucified in 1597 by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) who had been ...

  7. Great Martyrdom of Edo - Wikipedia

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    The Great Martyrdom of Edo [1] was the execution of 50 foreign and domestic Catholics (kirishitans), who were burned alive for their Christianity in Edo (modern-day Tokyo), Japan, on 4 December 1623. The mass execution was part of the persecution of Christians in Japan by Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.

  8. Catholic Church in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Sixteen Martyrs of Japan: 1633 - 1637 16 Hidden Christians who were martyred for their faith from 1633 to 1637. 18 February 1981 by Pope John Paul II 18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II 28 September 188 Martyrs of Japan [13] 1603 -1639 Additional priests and Catholics who were persecuted and martyred from 1603 to 1639.

  9. History of the Catholic Church in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Christian Century in Japan. 3rd edition. Manchester: Carcanet, 1993. Murai Shōsuke y “Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan”. Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese Studies 8: 93–106 2004. Fujita, Neil. Japan’s Encounter with Christianity: The Catholic Mission in Pre-modern Japan New York: Paulist Press 1991.