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Cristóvão Ferreira

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Viewing the world around we see that everything is endowed with its own nature and merit; bird or beast, insect or fish, grass or tree, earth or stone, air or water, each one has its natural quality and merit. All this is the work of
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After Ferreira had renounced his faith, he remained in Japan for the rest of his life. He became known as one of the "fallen priests" who assisted Japanese authorities with their knowledge of Western philosophies and sciences.
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missionaries and their Japanese followers were persecuted, arrested and executed. Authorities were concerned that the religion was making followers loyal to Christian nations rather than the
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In 1633, Ferreira was captured and renounced Christianity after being tortured for five hours. He became the most famous of the "fallen priests" and changed his name to Sawano Chūan (
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Bulletin of Portuguese / Japanese Studies, December, Año/Vol 1, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal, 131-134
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After his apostasy he married a Japanese woman and wrote several books, including treatises on Western
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The making of an enterprise: the Society of Jesus in Portugal, its empire, and beyond, 1540-1750
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in 1650. Some reports claim that, just before his death he recanted, was tortured and died as a
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Ferreira was interred in the gravesite of his son-in-law Sugimoto Chūkei's family.
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La Supercherie dévoilée. Une Réfutation du Catholicisme au Japon au XVIIe Siècle
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sect", but his own publications attest that he adopted a philosophy of
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is set in the aftermath of Ferreira's apostasy. Ferreira is played by
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Deus destroyed: the image of Christianity in early modern Japan
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Nihon Yōgakushi: Po, Ra, Ran, Ei, Doku, Futsu, Rogo no juyō
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Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Japan (c. 1580 – 1650)
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were ordered to trample on an image of Jesus Christ.
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Torres Vedras
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Shusaku Endo

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