A lot of bystanders gathering on the hill of Nishizaka got impressed with aspect of the Twenty-six, returning to heaven, filled with joy. Both Christians and those whose faith had been vague and unclear including even those who had never had their belief until that time, were converted and burst into magistrate’s office,”I am also a Christian. Please kill me.”
It is said that two-hundred sixty thousand people were martyred since then.
Even after it started the Meiji period, Christianity were banned for a while. At that time, preaching the Good News became legally permitted after the Christians in Urakami Catholic in Nagasaki were martyred and persecuted. We are quite encouraged by the testimony of their faith they showed toward the Lord. I will write about this matter later.
Furthermore, Christians received persecution during the war as the religion the enemy practiced in, even since the Meiji era.
As just described, it may be said that as a matter of fact, Japan is also the one of countries of most martyrs in the world in the number of martyrs and the issues of the ways martyrdom were done.
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