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Another group of martyrs were investigated by the Vatican Curia's Congregation for the Causes of Saints (CCS) in 1980 and were beatified on 18 February 1981. [4] Pope John Paul II canonized these 16 Martyrs of Japan as saints on 18 October 1987.
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 ...
The Martyrs of Japan were canonized by the Catholic Church on June 8, 1862, by Pope Pius IX, [8] and are listed on the calendar as Sts. Paul Miki and his Companions , commemorated on February 6, since February 5, the date of their death, is the feast of St. Agatha .
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.
16 Martyrs of Japan: 16 Christians who were persecuted for their faith in Japan, mostly during the 17th century. 26 Martyrs of Japan: 26 Roman Catholics who were executed by crucifixion at Nagasaki in 1597.
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 .
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 ...
16 Martyrs of Japan; 26 Martyrs of Japan; K. James Kisai; Thomas Kozaki; M. Magdalene of Nagasaki; Paul Miki; P. Philip of Jesus; T. Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga