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*''Died: [[1639]]''
Petro Kibe was a Japanese Jesuit, resident in [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam), who aimed to proselytize in Japan, and was eventually martyred in [[Edo]].
In his early 30s, Kibe journeyed to Rome, where he was ordained as a member of the [[Society of Jesus]]. He then made his way to Ayutthaya, via [[Malacca]], arriving there in [[1627]]. He met with the head of the local [[Nihonmachi|Japanese community]], and expressed his desire to return to Japan to proselytize there, but was told it wasn't possible. Anyone who was suspected of being a [[Christianity|Christian]], and most especially anyone who admitted to it, was barred from entering the country, or risked being killed. Kibe refused to pretend to be non-Christian, and so remained in Ayutthaya for two years, before securing passage on a Spanish ship bound for [[Manila]], and from there to [[Nagasaki]]. Kibe arrived in Nagasaki in [[1630]], and was formally executed by the shogunate, for his religion, in Edo in [[1639]].
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==References==
*Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 51-52.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Christians]]
Petro Kibe was a Japanese Jesuit, resident in [[Ayutthaya]] (Siam), who aimed to proselytize in Japan, and was eventually martyred in [[Edo]].
In his early 30s, Kibe journeyed to Rome, where he was ordained as a member of the [[Society of Jesus]]. He then made his way to Ayutthaya, via [[Malacca]], arriving there in [[1627]]. He met with the head of the local [[Nihonmachi|Japanese community]], and expressed his desire to return to Japan to proselytize there, but was told it wasn't possible. Anyone who was suspected of being a [[Christianity|Christian]], and most especially anyone who admitted to it, was barred from entering the country, or risked being killed. Kibe refused to pretend to be non-Christian, and so remained in Ayutthaya for two years, before securing passage on a Spanish ship bound for [[Manila]], and from there to [[Nagasaki]]. Kibe arrived in Nagasaki in [[1630]], and was formally executed by the shogunate, for his religion, in Edo in [[1639]].
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==References==
*Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 51-52.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Christians]]