Martyrs of Japan
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The Martyrs of Japan were Christian missionaries and followers who were persecuted and executed, mostly during the Tokugawa shogunate period in the 17th century. More than 400 martyrs of Japan have be
1628 German engraving of The 26 Martyrs of Japan at Nagasaki (note they look like Europeans because German artists at the time had no idea what Asians physically look like as well as Japanese culture & clothing)
Great Genna Martyrdom
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The Great Genna Martyrdom, also known as the Great Martyrdom of Nagasaki, was the execution of 55 foreign and domestic Catholics killed together at Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan, on 10 September 1
Martyrs of Japan
…period of 15 years, between 1617 and 1632, 205 missionaries and native Christians are known to have been killed for their faith, 55 of them during the Great Genna Martyrdom, a further 50 during the Great Martyrdom of Edo (but only three were beatified as part of the 205 Martyrs of Japan). Christianity was proscribed and…
1675 engraving of the Martyrdom by Melchior Küsel