Pope Francis to pay tribute to Japan’s ‘hidden Christians’
A Japanese couple visits the Twenty-Six Martyrs museum, which commemorates Japanese Christians executed on the site in the late 1500s in Nagasaki. Tomorrow Pope Francis will pay tribute to the sometimes forgotten population of ‘hidden Christians’. – AFP pic, November 23, 2019.
WHEN Pope Francis visits the Japanese city of Nagasaki, he will pay tribute to a sometimes forgotten population of so-called “hidden Christians” who clung to their faith for centuries despite brutal persecution. The story of the Japanese converted by visiting European missionaries was brought to the big screen in 2016 by director Martin Scorsese, in an adaptation of the novel Silence.
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