The Ohio Anglican has the full scope, but I found this part interesting.
A promising beginning to those missions—perhaps as many as 300,000 Christians by the end of the sixteenth century—met complications from competition between the missionary groups, political difficulty between Spain and Portugal, and factions within the government of Japan. Christianity was suppressed. By 1630, Christianity was driven underground. However, when Japan was re-opened to Western contacts 250 years later, it was found that a community of Japanese Christians had survived underground, without clergy, without Scriptures, with only very sketchy instructions in the doctrines of the faith, but with a firm commitment to Jesus as Lord. (I remind you that 250 years is a long time — 250 years ago Americans were loyal subjects of King George II.)
HT: The Ohio Anglican.blog: The Martyrs of Japan. (Here, at Wiki) Looks like there may be a movie soon as well. And for more on the martyrs, here as well.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Some of the worst persecutors were rulers who had become apostates. It would be interesting for someone to do a historical comparison of Julian and Shogun Inoue.
Now, that does sound like a post, Jeremiah.
Thanks for the tip, Qohelet.
Some of the worst persecutors were rulers who had become apostates. It would be interesting for someone to do a historical comparison of Julian and Shogun Inoue.
Now, that does sound like a post, Jeremiah.
Thanks for the tip, Qohelet.
The Philippines’ one and only canonized Catholic saint was St. Lorenzo Ruiz, who was a missionary martyred in Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1637.
The Philippines’ one and only canonized Catholic saint was St. Lorenzo Ruiz, who was a missionary martyred in Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1637.