Hebrews 12:18-19, 21-24; Ps 48(47):2-3a. 3b-4. 9. 10-11; Mark 6:7-13
He was born in Japan between 1564 and 1566. He joined the Society of Jesus and preached the gospel to the Japanese people with great success. When a persecution of the Catholics arose he was arrested together with twenty-five others. Mocked and tortured, they were eventually taken to Nagasaki on 5 February 1597, bound to crosses and speared.
Many years later, the Jesuits were still active in Japan, during the Second World War. The remarkable history of one such German Priest, who eventually took Japanese citizenship, after surviving the bomb at Hiroshima, has been turned into a short play that we had the great pleasure of seeing performed in our church last Friday.
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