Great Genna Martyrdom

When

10 Sep 1622

Kind

Event

Coordinates

32.75° N, 129.87° E

Description

55 Christians are executed in Nagasaki during the Great Genna Martyrdom.

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1622 Japanese execution of Christians in Nagasaki

The Great Genna Martyrdom , also known as the Great Martyrdom of Nagasaki, was the execution of 55 foreign and domestic Catholics killed together at Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan, on 10 September 1622. Beginning in 1614, Christianity was banned in Japan and a smuggling incident concerning two foreign missionaries prompted the killing.

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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “cinquante-cinq chrétiens japonais, dont Inès Takeya, meurent dans le Grand martyre de Nagasaki”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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