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Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument

Memorials : 369
Location : Nagasaki, Nagasaki-shi, Japan
Coordinate : 32.7547060, 129.8717250
Description : This memorial on Nishizaka Hill was built on June 1962 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the canonization of the 26 Roman Catholic Christian martyrs, comprised of 20 native Japanese and six priests (four Spaniards, one Mexican and one Indian), who were executed on the site on February 5, 1597. The martyrs had been arrested in Kyoto and Osaka on the order of then national ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi for preaching Christianity, then an outlawed religion in Japan. They were imprisoned then forced to march through the snow to Nagasaki so that their execution might serve as a deterrent to that... Read More

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    Latitude: 32.7547060
    Longitude: 129.8717250

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