Pray at the Martyrdom of the Pope "Japan 26 Saints"

Pope prays in the Martyrdom of “Japan 26 Saints”, November 24 5:04

Pope Francis will visit Nishizaka Park in Nagasaki City on the 24th. Why do you visit?

Behind the NHK Nagasaki Broadcasting Station, this park is a martyrdom where 15 foreign missionaries and 26 Japanese believers were executed in 1597, against Toyotomi Hideyoshi's banishment.

The execution was reported to Europe by a Jesuit missionary in Nagasaki at the time.

And in 1862, 265 years after the execution, the Pope Pius IX at that time added these 26 people to the saint's line and became called “Japan 26 Saints”.

100 years later, in 1962, a monument and a memorial were built.
Pope John Paul II, who visited Nagasaki in 1981 (Showa 56), also visited here. Pope Francis also decided to offer prayers to the 26 Japanese saints.