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Great Martyrdom Of Edo
The Great Martyrdom of Edo was the execution of 50 foreign and domestic Catholic Church, Catholics (''kirishitans''), who were burned alive for their Christianity in Edo (modern-day Tokyo), Japan, on 4 December 1623. The mass execution was part of the persecution of Christianity in Japan, Christians in Japan by Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. Among the executed was Jerome de Angelis (1567–1623), an Italian Jesuit missionary to Japan. Background and execution Background In August 1623, Tokugawa Hidetada retired the shogunate and his son Tokugawa Iemitsu was appointed shogun. He continued his father's policy of Christian prosecution. As shogun, he established the office of , the office of inquisition, and used it for his policy of eradication of Christianity in Japan. Tokugawa Iemitsu considered it important not only to keep the legislation against Christianity of his father, but also to set an example. This example was set with the Great Edo Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome De Angelis
Jerome de Angelis (, 1567 – 4 December 1623) was an Italian Jesuit missionary to Japan. He was beatified in 1867. Life He was born Girolamo degli Angeli at Castro-Giovanni, Sicily. Woods, Joseph. "Girolamo degli Angeli." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 24 April 2020 He studied law in Palermo before entering the Society of Jesus at in 1586. He was assigned to the Japanese mission and left Lisbon in April 1596, in company with 7 other Jesuits destined for Japan. Storms disrupted his journey and took him to Brazil, Puerto Rico and England (after being captured by an English ship). He and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto
Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the List of cities in Japan, ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin, Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe. Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan, having been chosen in 794 as the new seat of Japan's imperial court by Emperor Kanmu. The original city, named Heian-kyō, was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang. The emperors of Japan ruled fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People Beatified By Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI beatification, beatified 870 people. The names listed below are from Holy See, the Vatican]websiteand are listed by year, then date. The locations given are the locations of the beatification ceremonies, not necessarily the birthplaces or homelands of the beatified. January 23 January 2010, Barcelona, Spain * Josep Samsó Elías (1887–1936) 29 January 2012, Vienna, Austria * Hildegard Burjan (1883–1933) February 3 February 2008, Cagliari, Italy * Giuseppina Nicoli (1863–1924) March 18 March 2006, Bari, Italy * Teodora Fracasso (1901–1927) 30 March 2008, Florence, Italy * Maria Anna Donati (1848–1925) April 30 April 2006 Milan, Italy * Luigi Biraghi (1801–1879) * Luigi Monza (1898–1954) Ramapuram, Kottayam, Ramapuram, Kerala, India * Thevarparampil Kunjachan (1891–1973) 14 April 2007, Turin, Italy * Luigi Boccardo (1861–1936) 15 April 2007, Naples, Italy * Costanza Starace (1845–1921) 21 April 2007, Palermo, Sicily, Italy * Francesco S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Pius IX
Pope Pius IX (; born Giovanni Maria Battista Pietro Pellegrino Isidoro Mastai-Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878. His reign of nearly 32 years is the longest verified of any pope in history; if including unverified reigns, his reign was second to that of Peter the Apostle. He was notable for convoking the First Vatican Council in 1868 and for permanently losing control of the Papal States in 1870 to the Kingdom of Italy. Thereafter, he refused to leave Vatican City, declaring himself a "prisoner in the Vatican". At the time of his election, he was a liberal reformer, but his approach changed after the Revolutions of 1848. Upon the assassination of his prime minister, Pellegrino Rossi, Pius fled Rome and excommunicated all participants in the short-lived Roman Republic (1849–1850), Roman Republic. After its suppression by the French army and his return in 1850, his policies and doctrinal pronouncements became increasingl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
205 Martyrs Of Japan
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatification
Beatification (from Latin , "blessed" and , "to make") is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name. ''Beati'' is the plural form, referring to those who have undergone the process of beatification; they possess the title of "Blessed" () (abbreviation "Bl.") before their names and are often referred to in English as "a Blessed" or, plurally, "Blesseds". It is the third stage of the ordinary process of Canonization#Since 1983, official recognitions for Catholic saints: Servant of God, Venerable#Catholic, Venerable, Blessed, and Saint. History Local Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishops had the power of beatifying until 1634, when Pope Urban VIII, in the apostolic constitution ''Cœlestis Jerusalem'' of 6 July, reserved the power of beatifying to the Holy See. Since the reforms of 1983, as a rule, (for non-martyred Venerables) one Miracle, miracle must ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome. It was founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola and six companions, with the approval of Pope Paul III. The Society of Jesus is the largest religious order in the Catholic Church and has played significant role in education, charity, humanitarian acts and global policies. The Society of Jesus is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 countries. Jesuits work in education, research, and cultural pursuits. They also conduct retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes, sponsor direct social and humanitarian works, and promote Ecumenism, ecumenical dialogue. The Society of Jesus is consecrated under the patron saint, patronage of Madonna della Strada, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is led by a Superior General of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Friars Minor Capuchin
The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; postnominal abbr. OFMCap) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of three " First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFMObs, now OFM), the other being the Conventuals (OFMConv). Franciscans reformed as Capuchins in 1525 with the purpose of regaining the original Habit (tunic) of St. Francis of Assisi and also for returning to a stricter observance of the rule established by Francis of Assisi in 1209. History Origins The Order arose in 1525 when Matteo da Bascio, an Observant Franciscan friar native to the Italian region of Marche, said he had been inspired by God with the idea that the manner of life led by the friars of his day was not the one which their founder, St. Francis of Assisi, had envisaged. He sought to return to the primitive way of life of solitude and penance, as practised by the founder of their Order. His religious superiors tried to suppress the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father (honorific)
Father has been used as both title and honorific in various languages, synonyms and historical contexts. It may sometimes denote a title of authority or of honour. List of uses of "father" in various languages By culture and/or language * Ab (Semitic) ** Bwana ("our father"), from Swahili, meaning an important person or safari leader ** Abu in Kunya (Arabic), used as epithet for "father of X" * Baba, mark of respect in: ** Indian honorific Hindu and Sikh ** Baba (honorific) in Persian language ** In Malaysia as an honorific of respect to address Chinese people born in the British Straits Settlements * Batko, a Ukrainian honorific meaning "father" * List of people considered father or mother of a field * Founding father ** Father of the Nation/Father of the Country *** Pater Patriae *** Fathers of Confederation *** Founding fathers of the European Union *** Founding Fathers of the United States * Pater familias (Latin), title for head of household in Ancient Rome Personifica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girolamo De Angelis
Jerome de Angelis (, 1567 – 4 December 1623) was an Italian Jesuit missionary to Japan. He was beatified in 1867. Life He was born Girolamo degli Angeli at Castro-Giovanni, Sicily. Woods, Joseph. "Girolamo degli Angeli." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 24 April 2020 He studied law in Palermo before entering the Society of Jesus at in 1586. He was assigned to the Japanese mission and left Lisbon in April 1596, in company with 7 other Jesuits destined for Japan. Storms disrupted his journey and took him to Brazil, Puerto Rico and England (after being captured by an English ship). He and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burning Alive
Death by burning is an list of execution methods, execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public capital punishment, and many societies have employed it as a punishment for and warning against crimes such as treason, heresy, and witchcraft. The best-known execution of this type is burning at the stake, where the condemned is bound to a large wooden stake and a fire lit beneath. A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire, also known as a burnt offering. The word derives from the ancient Greek holokaustos, the form of sacrifice in which the victim was reduced to ash, as distinguished from an animal sacrifice that resulted in a communal meal. Effects In the process of being burned to death, a body experiences burns to tissue, changes in content and distribution of body fluid, fixation (histology), fixation of tissue, and shrinkage (especially of the skin). Intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
