Directory of Japanese Martyrs Resources

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Sites with information about the martyrs of Japan.

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• Twenty-Six Martyrs of Nagasaki

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• Japanese Martyrs

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09744a.htm
  The most famous of the Japanese martyrs are the 26 who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597, but thousands of other Japanese died for the faith between 1560 and 1860. Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia outlines their heroism.

• The Martyrs of Japan

  http://www.cin.org/saints/paulmiki.html
  Hagiography in Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints covers not only the 26 martyrs of Nagasaki, but also those who suffered before and after them.

 

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