http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/05/1597-the-26-martyrs-of-japan/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:40:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/05/1597-the-26-martyrs-of-japan/#comment-6415 ExecutedToday.com » 1579: Hatano Hideharu, en route to the Tokugawa Shogunate Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:05:19 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/05/1597-the-26-martyrs-of-japan/#comment-6415 [...] that station, Hideyoshi completed the national unificiation that Nobunaga had commenced and set the stage for the Edo period under the shogunate founded by his successor, Tokugawa [...] [...] that station, Hideyoshi completed the national unificiation that Nobunaga had commenced and set the stage for the Edo period under the shogunate founded by his successor, Tokugawa [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/05/1597-the-26-martyrs-of-japan/#comment-3408 Epistle Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:56:34 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/02/05/1597-the-26-martyrs-of-japan/#comment-3408 It was not the Martyrs of Japan's Catholicism, as the text implies, but their Christianity for which they were martyred, I suggest. Offering to renounce Catholicism but become Protestant instead would I doubt have saved them. It was not the Martyrs of Japan’s Catholicism, as the text implies, but their Christianity for which they were martyred, I suggest. Offering to renounce Catholicism but become Protestant instead would I doubt have saved them.

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