{"id":103699,"date":"2020-02-03T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=103699"},"modified":"2020-02-03T09:04:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:04:48","slug":"a-samurai-for-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-samurai-for-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"A Samurai for Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I<\/span>n addition to being the feast of Saint Blaise<\/a>, today is the memorial of Blessed Iusto Takayama Ukon<\/a>. He was a Catholic samurai, pledged to Clan Toyotomi, as well as Daimy\u014d of Takatsuki and Akashi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1587 his daimy\u014d, Toyotomi Hideyoshi<\/a>, banished Christian missionaries from his lands and ordered all his Christian daimy\u014ds to renounce their faith. Although many nobles gave up their faith, Iusto refused, saying he would rather die. His lord did not pursue the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then, in 1614, Sh\u014dgun Tokugawa Ieyasu made Christianity illegal throughout Japan. Once again, Iusto refused to give up his faith. He was stripped of his lands and titles and banished from Japan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now a r\u014dnin and exile, Iusto went to Spanish Manila and died just 40 days after his arrival. The Spanish government gave him a Christian burial with full military honors appropriate to a daimy\u014d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is considered a martyr for the faith and is the patron saint of persecuted Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to being the feast of Saint Blaise, today is the memorial of Blessed Iusto Takayama Ukon. He was a Catholic samurai, pledged to Clan Toyotomi, as well as Daimy\u014d of Takatsuki and Akashi. In 1587 his daimy\u014d, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, banished Christian missionaries from his lands and ordered all his Christian daimy\u014ds to renounce their faith. Although many nobles gave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A Samurai for Christ - blatherings from the blog.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Takayama-Ukon.jpg?fit=1380%2C1850&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-qYz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106154,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-digression-on-the-star-wars\/","url_meta":{"origin":103699,"position":0},"title":"A Digression on the Star Wars","author":"Thom","date":"05 February 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"in early June 1977, in a small theater in Hegewisch Illinois, I saw Star Wars for the first time. 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