Japan. Persecution of Christians. The Great Martyrdom of Nagasaki (September 10, 1622). On that date, twenty-two missionaries and Japanese Christians were burned. Thirty others, including women and children, were beheaded in the presence of a large crowd. Engraving from a Japanese watercolour of the time, preserved in the Church of the Gesù in Rome. "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et à l'Epoque de la Renaissance". Paris, 1877.

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