May 15, 2014 · One of the four great islands of Japan, has all area of 7009 square miles, not counting the smaller islands which depend upon it.

Hierarchically constituted, it has divided all of Japan, including Formosa, into six districts; it number 13,384 baptized Christians; 228 foreign missionaries, ...

Jun 4, 2014 · Nagasaki, capital of the prefecture (ken) of the same name, is situated on a small peninsula on the south-eastern coast of the Island of Kiushiu ...

May 14, 2014 · Archdiocese comprising 21 provinces or 15 departments with a population of over 16,000,000 inhabitants. From 1866 until 1876 Japan formed only ...

Jun 4, 2014 · Osaka (Oye, great river; saka, cliff), one of the three municipal prefectures (ken) of Japan ... Shikoku) belonging to this territory. While it ...

Oct 5, 2013 · It was not until 1587, when there were 200,000 Christians in Japan, that an edict of persecution, or rather of prescription, was passed to the ...

Apr 9, 2021 · JAPAN, CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN, Catholicism). This enraged the Japanese Emperor Hideyoshi, generally called Taicosama by Europeans. He ...

Apr 21, 2013 · —Leprosy was not uncommon in India as far back as the fifteenth century b. c. (Ctesias, Pers., xli; Herodian, I, i, 38), and in Japan during ...

Apr 21, 2013 · In English it has been used for the deprivation of life from the moment of conception up to the age of two or three years. Except under Hebrew ...

Apr 21, 2013 · Portugese missionary in Japan, born in the castle of Govillou, Diocese of Guarda, Portugal, 1529; died at Goa, 1609.