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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 ...
Martyrdom of Paul Miki and Companions in Nagasaki St. Francisco Blanco. In the aftermath of the San Felipe incident of 1596, [3] 26 Catholics – four Spaniards, one Mexican, one Portuguese from India (all of whom were Franciscan missionaries), three Japanese Jesuits, and 17 Japanese members of the Third Order of St. Francis, including three young boys who served as altar boys for the ...
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.
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 ...
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Hung up on 26 crosses with chains and ropes, the Christians were lanced to death in front of a large crowd on Nishizaka Hill. Saint Paul Miki is said to have preached to the crowd from his cross. The main theme inherent in both the museum and monument is "The Way to Nagasaki" – symbolising not only the physical trek to Nagasaki but also the ...
List of Unitarian martyrs: a list of people considered martyrs for their adherence to the Unitarianism movement. Martyrs of Gorkum: 19 Dutch Catholic clerics and friars hanged by militant Dutch Calvinists during the 16th century religious wars. Martyrs of Nowogródek: 11 Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth executed by the Gestapo in 1943 in ...
The following is the list of saints, including the year in which they were canonized and the country or countries with which they are associated. The Four Martyrs of Thane (d. 1321) Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest (1622, China, India, and Japan) The 26 Sainted Martyrs of Japan (1862, Japan and India) John de Brito, Jesuit priest (1947, India)