Thomas V. Mirus surveys the history of the Church through the lives of the popes.
Introduction to a series of articles covering the lives of the popes.
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Today is the Memorial of St. Paul Miki, a Japanese Jesuit, and his twenty-five companions (d. 1597), who were martyred in Nagasaki, Japan. They were the first martyrs of East Asia to be canonized. They were killed simultaneously by being raised on crosses and then stabbed with spears. Their executioners…
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