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...], where he served as "superior" until [[1581]]. He spent most of the rest of his life in Kyushu. ...gasaki]] in 1597, a few months after the death of the [[Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan]].

== Timeline of 1597 == ...26 Christians]] in [[Hizen province|Hizen]]; the first bloody persecution of Christians in Japan.

[[File:Nagasaki-abelgower.jpg|right|thumb|400px|An [[1859]] photograph of Nagasaki by [[Abel Gower]], with [[Myogyo-ji|Myôgyô-ji]] in the foreground, and [[ *''Japanese'': 長崎 ''(Nagasaki)''

...20px|A lacquered reading stand inlaid in mother-of-pearl with the IHS logo of the Society. [[Tokyo National Museum]], 16-17th c.]] ...r-Reformation in Europe, and one of the earliest and most prominent groups of Christian missionaries to be active in Japan.