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17th-century Roman Catholic martyrs (3 C, 111 P) Pages in category "17th-century Christian martyrs" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Modern Era—17th to 21st centuries ... one of the 19th century Chinese Catholic Martyrs, 1862; Thomas Baker, ... List of Christian martyrs.
The Christian martyrs of the 1622 Great Genna Martyrdom. 16th/17th-century Japanese painting. Persecution flared episodically and over a 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 ...
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd ... Pages in category "17th-century Roman Catholic martyrs" The following 111 pages are in this category, out of 111 total.
17th-century missionary activity in Asia and the Americas grew strongly, put down roots, and developed its institutions, though it met with strong resistance in Japan in particular. At the same time Christian colonization of some areas outside Europe succeeded, driven by economic as well as religious reasons.
Nagasaki remained a Christian city in the first decades of the 17th century and during the general persecutions other confraternities were founded in Shimabara, Kinai and Franciscans in Edo. The Christian martyrs of the 1622 Great Genna Martyrdom. 17th-century Japanese painting. Fumi-e to expose Christians by the Tokugawa Shogunate
Although the so-called "Marian Persecutions" began with four clergymen, relics of Edwardian England's Protestantism, [2]: 196 Foxe's Book of Martyrs offers an account of the executions, which extended well beyond the anticipated targets – high-level clergy. Tradesmen were also burned, as well as married men and women, sometimes in unison ...
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