The Japanese Martyrs

Podcast: Gresham College · Gresham College

Opublikowano: 2026-10-30

In the age of exploration, Catholic missionaries fanned out across the world, meeting with extraordinary success but also extraordinary opposition: nowhere more so than in Japan, where the fast-growing Catholic community was brutally suppressed in the early seventeenth century. Uploaded 11-06-26 This lecture will explore how this bloody crisis shaped myths of Japanese cruelty and cults of Catholic sanctity in Europe, while also precipitating the 250-year 'closing' of Japan and the intense piety of a small remnant of underground Japanese Christians. A lecture by Alec Ryrie 11 March The transcript and...