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    The 26 Martyrs of Japan (Japanese: 日本二十六聖人, Hepburn: Nihon Nijūroku Seijin) were a group of Catholics who were executed by crucifixion on February 5,...
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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...
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    The 26 Martyrs of Japan (Junkyō chi-shi Nihon nijūrokuseijin) is a 1931 film released in Japan based on the martyrdom of twenty-six Catholic priests and...
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    was Christianity re-established in Japan. The first group of martyrs, known as the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan (1597), were canonized by the Church...
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  • Otranto (1480) 26 Martyrs of Japan (1597) Canadian Martyrs (mid-17th century) 16 Martyrs of Japan (17th century) Uganda Martyrs (1880s) Saints of the Cristero...
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    Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan (also called St Paul Miki and Companions) Paul Miki (one of the Twenty-Six Martyrs) Sixteen Martyrs of Japan There are some...
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    205 Martyrs of Japan (日本の殉教者, Nihon no junkyōsha) were Christian missionaries and followers who were persecuted and executed for their faith in Japan, mostly...
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    of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan (日本二十六聖殉教者聖堂), is a Catholic minor basilica and co-cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, built soon after the end of the...
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    Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument were built on Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan in June 1962 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the canonization...
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    Paul Miki (category 26 Martyrs of Japan)
    in 1862, Miki is recognized as one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan. Paul Miki was born into a wealthy Japanese family. He was educated by the Jesuits...
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    Kawara Rokuemon Juan Chūgoku. 205 Martyrs of Japan 26 Martyrs of Japan – A separate martyrdom in 1597 Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument – A museum for...
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    Gonsalo Garcia (category 26 Martyrs of Japan)
    companions, the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan. He was born at Bassein (Vasai), Baçaim in the Indo-Portuguese era, an exurban town of the present-day Greater...
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    James Kisai (category 26 Martyrs of Japan)
    (ディエゴ喜斎) or Jacobo Kisai, was a Japanese Jesuit lay brother and saint, one of the 26 Martyrs of Japan. Out of the 26, Kisai, Paul Miki, and John Soan...
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  • OFM was a Spanish Catholic Franciscan missionary and martyr, one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan (日本二十六聖人 Nihon Nijūroku Seijin). He is revered as a...
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  • martyred in the city of Caesarea Maritima. Four Crowned Martyrs: nine people venerated as martyrs and saints by the Catholic Church. Korean Martyrs:...
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    Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan. Soon after the first contacts in 1543, Portuguese ships started to arrive in Japan to trade. At the time, the Japanese desired...
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    Azuchi–Momoyama period (category Feudal Japan)
    This became known as the 26 Martyrs of Japan. These measures severely curbed Christianity and foreign influence in Japan. Hideyoshi sought to secure...
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    Justo Takayama (category Japan–Philippines relations)
    Naitō Julia Persecution of Christians in Japan 26 Martyrs of Japan History of the Catholic Church in Japan Caius of Korea "Blessed Iustus Takayama Ukon"....
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    Philip of Jesus, OFM (Spanish: Felipe de Jesús) was a Novohispanic Franciscan Catholic missionary who became one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan, the...
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    Crucifixion (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    from a misinterpretation of a full-clothed crucifix known as the Volto Santo of Lucca. The 26 Martyrs of Japan: Japanese martyrs who were crucified and...
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    dangerous rebels like the Ikkō-ikki sect of earlier years; this led to Hideyoshi putting the 26 Martyrs of Japan followers to death in 1597 on his order...
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  • and Julio Villarreal. It portrays the life of the Mexican priest Philip of Jesus who was martyred in Japan in 1597. Ernesto Alonso as Felipe de las Casas...
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    Pedro Arrupe (category Superiors General of the Society of Jesus)
    anniversary of the 26 Martyrs of Japan. His final words had been: "For the present, Amen; for the future, Alleluia." His funeral was held in the Church of the...
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  • This is a timeline of Japanese history, comprising important legal, territorial and cultural changes and political events in Japan and its predecessor...
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    Mexican Roman Catholic priest, missionary, martyr and saint (b. 1572) 26 Martyrs of Japan February 6 – Franciscus Patricius, Italian philosopher and scientist...
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  • Martyrs' Day are days observed in or by some countries, incl. the United States, Japan, India, Brazil, Canada and Australia, to recognise martyrs such...
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    (16 Jan.); 26 Martyrs of Japan, including the Franciscan missionaries Philip of Jesus, Francisco Blanco, and Gonzalo Garcia, d. 1597, martyred at Nagasaki...
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    ISBN 8-49763-140-4. pg. 56. "Martyrs List". Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum. Archived from the original on 2010-02-14. Retrieved 2010-01-10. "Saint of the Day: St. Paul...
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  • one of the 26 Martyrs of Japan (Chinese father) Janey Ensminger (1976 − 1985), victim of government water supply mismanagement and namesake of Janey...
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    Ishida Mitsunari (category People executed by Japan by decapitation)
    Christianity by minimising the number of Christians he arrested, and trying hard to appease Hideyoshi's anger (see 26 Martyrs of Japan). In the same year, Mitsunari...
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