Luis Ibaraki, the youngest 12-year old boy was among the twenty-six. He refused the request,"Be my adopted son" from Hanzaburo in Yamamoto Mura, SAga, and chose God. Arriving on the hill of Nishizaka, he asked guards there.
"Which is my cross I would be put?"
The guards indicated looking at him,"The cross you will be put is the smallest one over there." And Luis Ibaraki ran up to his cross with smile, and embraced and rubbed his cheek with the cross, and then kissed.
The executioners began their task of attaching the bodies to the crosses. Fastening iron clamps around the neck, hands and feet, they tied around the waist with a cord to keep the body steady. They fastened to the crosses fitly. And they maneuvered the foot of each cross next to the hole that had already been dug and let it slip down inside. Then, twenty-six crosses got straightened upright on the hill of Nishizaka. With twenty-six martyrs……..
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