十Christian Japan
Egami Church, Goto Islands

The History of
Christianity in Japan

Told mainly through its Catholic story: the missionaries, the martyrs, the hidden Christians and the Church that came back into the open. People, events, places and themes, built from scholarship, diocesan records and primary texts. Every fact cites a source.

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Petro Kasui Kibe

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Petro Kasui Kibe

Petro Kasui Kibe was a Japanese Jesuit priest from Bungo who walked much of the way from Asia to Rome to be ordained, spent years trying to get home, and died under torture in Edo in 1639.

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Cieslik 1960 Gonoi 2008 (wishlist) Tokyo Archdiocese CBCJ leaflet Sakurai Yasuto

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