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A monument to 26 Christian martyrs executed in 1597 (at the beginning of Japan’s repression of Catholicism) includes a small museum displaying relics, including a communion wafer that has survived in dehydrated form since the 17th century.
In the 1960s, eminent Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin claimed to have found the bones of 960 martyrs there, thus confirming Josephus' account of their deaths.
We sat together at one summer's end,That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,And you and I, and talked of poetry.I said, "A line will take us hours maybe;Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.Better go down upon your marrow-bonesAnd scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stonesLike an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;For to articulate sweet sounds togetherIs to work harder than all these, and yetBe thought an idler by the noisy setOf bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymenThe martyrs call the world."
All "seven martyrs," as they've been lionized, stayed Republicans and campaigned for Ulysses S. Grant in 1868.
News column describes the attractions of cults, and compares the Heaven's Gate suicides to early Christian martyrs.