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    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...
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    The 26 Martyrs of Japan (Japanese: 日本二十六聖人, Hepburn: Nihon Nijūroku Seijin) were a group of Catholics who were executed by crucifixion on February 5, 1597...
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    The Martyrs of Japan (日本の殉教者, Nihon no junkyōsha) were Christian missionaries and followers who were persecuted and executed for their faith in Japan, mostly...
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    was Christianity re-established in Japan. The first group of martyrs, known as the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan (1597), were canonized by the Church...
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    Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan (also called St Paul Miki and Companions) Paul Miki (one of the Twenty-Six Martyrs) Sixteen Martyrs of Japan There are some...
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  • AD) First Martyrs of the Church of Rome (64 AD) Scillitan Martyrs (180) Massa Candida (253–260) Martyrs of Abitinae (304) Thirty Martyrs of the Appian...
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    of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan (日本二十六聖殉教者聖堂) is a Catholic minor basilica and co-cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, built soon after the end of the...
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    happened at the same place as the crucifixion of the 26 Martyrs of Japan on 5 February 1597. An early account of the execution is provided in a 1624 pamphlet...
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    one of the Vietnamese Martyrs Giordano Ansaloni (1598-1634), Italian friar, missionary to the Philippines and Japan, one of the 16 Martyrs of Japan Antoninus...
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  • martyred in the city of Caesarea Maritima. Four Crowned Martyrs: nine people venerated as martyrs and saints by the Catholic Church. Korean Martyrs:...
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