Japan's Ban on Christianity and the Martyrdom of the Twenty-Six Saints

Name: Japan's Ban on Christianity and the Martyrdom of the Twenty-Six Saints
Start: 1597

Type Event Region Asia Time 1597

On February 5, 1597, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered the execution of twenty-six Christians (including six foreign missionaries and twenty Japanese believ…

Timeline

1596–1597Kyoto · KansaiToyotomi Hideyoshi reaffirmed the ban on Christianity, ordering the arrest of Christians in Kyoto, Osaka, and elsewhere, and sending some prisoners to Nagasaki for public execution as a warning.
1597Nishizaka, Nagasaki · KyushuPaul Miki, Luke of Amakusa, and twenty-four others were crucified and martyred, becoming the most famous martyrdom event in the history of Japanese Christianity and later canonized by the Catholic Church.

Sources

Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument, Nagasaki https://www.japan.travel/en/spot/1685/