![]() Later, the Protestants from the Netherlands also wanted their share of souls in Japan, or was it something else they wanted? For the priests and ministers who went to Japan, I’m sure their objective was saving the souls of the Japanese because anyone not embracing the “true religion” was going to hell. The Spanish Franciscans and Dominicans, not wanting to be left out of this mass conversion opportunity, sent their own priests to compete with Xavier. The Japanese were Buddhist, not “heathens” without a proper religion. ![]() The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier born in SPAIN, but representing PORTUGAL arrived in Japan in 1543 to save souls. Japanese Painting by an unknown artist of the Christian Martyrs of Nagasaki. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.” ![]() “Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be it is not to steal and tell lies. ![]()
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