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Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan (Nagasaki)

Index Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan (Nagasaki)

The Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan (日本二十六聖殉教者堂) also is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and Co-cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, built soon after the end of the Japanese government's Seclusion Policy in 1853. [1]

23 relations: Akasaka Palace, Bernard Petitjean, Bronze, Catholic Church, Co-cathedral, Glover Garden, Gothic architecture, Holy See, Japan, Kakure Kirishitan, Mary, mother of Jesus, Minor basilica, Nagasaki, National Treasure (Japan), Osaka, Paris Foreign Missions Society, Pope Pius IX, Sakoku, Shimabara Rebellion, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument, Urakami, 26 Martyrs of Japan.

Akasaka Palace

, or the, is one of the two State Guesthouses of the Government of Japan.

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Bernard Petitjean

Bernard Thaddée Petitjean (14 June 1829 – 7 October 1884) was a French Roman Catholic priest who served as a missionary to Japan as well as becoming the country's first vicar apostolic.

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Co-cathedral

A co-cathedral is a cathedral church which shares the function of being a bishop's seat, or cathedra, with another cathedral, often in another city (usually a former see, anchor city of the metropolitan area, and/or the civil capital).

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Glover Garden

Glover House known as ''Ipponmatsu'' (Single Pine Tree) from a drawing of 1863. The tree was chopped down in the early 20th century is a park in Nagasaki, Japan built for Thomas Blake Glover, a Scottish merchant who contributed to the modernization of Japan in shipbuilding, coal mining, and other fields.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages.

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Holy See

The Holy See (Santa Sede; Sancta Sedes), also called the See of Rome, is the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, the episcopal see of the Pope, and an independent sovereign entity.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Kakure Kirishitan

Kakure Kirishitan is a modern term for a member of the Japanese Catholic Church during the Edo period that went underground after the Shimabara Rebellion in the 1630s.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Minor basilica

Minor basilica (Basilica minor, Basilicæ minores in plural) is a title given to some Roman Catholic church buildings.

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Nagasaki

() is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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National Treasure (Japan)

Some of the National Treasures of Japan A National Treasure (国宝: kokuhō) is the most precious of Japan's Tangible Cultural Properties, as determined and designated by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (a subsidiary of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology).

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Paris Foreign Missions Society

The Society of Foreign Missions of Paris (Société des Missions étrangères de Paris, short M.E.P.) is a Roman Catholic missionary organization.

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Pope Pius IX

Pope Pius IX (Pio; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878), born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, was head of the Catholic Church from 16 June 1846 to his death on 7 February 1878.

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Sakoku

was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, nearly all foreigners were barred from entering Japan, and common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country for a period of over 220 years.

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Shimabara Rebellion

The was an uprising in what is now Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan lasting from December 17, 1637, to April 15, 1638, during the Edo period.

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi

was a preeminent daimyō, warrior, general, samurai, and politician of the Sengoku period who is regarded as Japan's second "great unifier".

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Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument

The Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument were built on Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan in June 1962 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the canonization by the Roman Catholic Church of the Christians executed on the site on February 5, 1597.

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Urakami

Urakami was an area in the northern part of the city of Nagasaki, Japan.

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26 Martyrs of Japan

The were a group of Catholics who were executed by crucifixion on February 5, 1597, at Nagasaki.

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Redirects here:

Church of the Twenty-Six Martyrs, Oura Cathedral, Oura Church, Oura cathedral, Ōura Cathedral, Ōura Church.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_Twenty-Six_Holy_Martyrs_of_Japan_(Nagasaki)

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