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Back to Episodes5th February 1597: The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan executed in Nagasaki
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The group, which included six foreign Franciscan friars, three Japanese Jesuits, and seventeen Japanese lay Christians, was sentenced to death by Toyotomi Hideyoshi after statements from a shipwrecked crew suggested that missionaries prepared the way for military ...