Japan´s Martyr Church (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Japan´s Martyr Church The Catholic Church never grows old, for her soul is the Eternal Spirit of God. She can never rest or remain inactive as long as a nation needs the Gospel or a soul, sanctification. She is always engaged in carrying out her God-appointed task: "Go teach all nations, preach the Gospel to every creature." Here, her work progresses, there, it is retarded; at one period whole peoples accept the faith, at another large numbers reject it; but through success and through failure the Church´s work goes on and the wide world is the field of her labours. In all her history there are few chapters more inspiring and none more entrancing than the story of the rise and decline of Christianity in Japan in the sixteenth century. While the reformers were engaged in their attempts to destroy the ancient faith in England and Germany, the saintly Jesuit missionaries were establishing it in Japanese kingdoms, and succeeded in adding 150,000 members to the Church in less than a quarter of a century - members who, on the whole, so lived their faith that theirs might be fitly called the Church of the elect. The history of that Church reveals many wonders: the intricate and extraordinary workings of God´s Providence, the sudden transformations wrought by grace, the striking conversion of kings and princes, the persevering fervour of the multitude of converts, the heroic sanctity of numerous souls and the irresistible force of divine truth on the lips of a St. Francis Xavier. It tells us of apostles like Torres, Fernandez and Villella, whose personal holiness was the best proof of the divinity of the religion they taught; of martyrs like Father Angelis and Father Navarro, worthy successors in work, zeal and self-denial of their saintly leader. As we read the record of the lives, labours, and sufferings of these men of God and of the fervour and fortitude of the people on whom they poured the saving waters of Baptism, we feel as if we were back in the days of St. Paul among the early Christians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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