The martyrdom of 26 missionaries and Japanese Christians burnt at the stake, and 30 women and children decapitated, in Nagasaki, Japan, 10 Sept. 1622. Grand martyre de Nangasaki dans lequel 26 missionnaires et chretiens indigenes souffrirent la supplice de la combustion. Woodcut by P. Sellier from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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