The Glorious Martyrdom of the Cross. The Franciscans and the Japanese Persecutions of 1597.

IF 0.4 4区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Héléne Vu Thanh
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Abstract

The Franciscan martyrdom of 1597 was not an unprecedented event in the young history of Japanese Christianity, as a first wave of persecutions occurred ten years earlier. But the echo it found in Asia, America and Europe, was unparalleled. This article aims to account for Franciscan success in giving worldwide publicity to what could otherwise be seen as a local event of limited consequence. The martyrdom of 1597 finds it roots in a context of tensions between Christians and Buddhists, who formed an overwhelming majority in Japan. However, the persecutions had more to do with the suppression of troubles than with theological considerations. But this political aspect is hardly apparent in Franciscan sources, which were mostly concerned with describing the martyrdom. From the start, the Franciscans were keen to actively circulate witnesses’ accounts of the martyrdom in Mexico and in Europe. What also helped the event achieve worldwide publicity was that the Franciscans blamed the Jesuits for the outbreak of persecutions. The martyrdom indeed became the object of a dispute between religious orders, but with political ramifications, as the Spanish in the Philippines supported the Franciscans while the Jesuits were closely dependent on the Portuguese in Macao.
光荣的十字架殉难。方济各会与1597年的日本迫害。
1597年的方济会殉难在日本基督教的年轻历史中并不是一个史无前例的事件,因为第一波迫害发生在十年前。但它在亚洲、美洲和欧洲得到的反响是无与伦比的。这篇文章的目的是解释方济各会成功地在世界范围内宣传,否则可能被视为有限后果的地方事件。1597年的殉难根源于基督徒和佛教徒之间的紧张关系,后者在日本占绝大多数。然而,迫害更多的是为了压制麻烦,而不是出于神学上的考虑。但这种政治方面在方济各会的资料中几乎不明显,这些资料主要是关于描述殉道的。从一开始,方济各会就热衷于在墨西哥和欧洲积极传播目击者对殉道的描述。这一事件在世界范围内得到宣传的另一个原因是,方济各会士指责耶稣会士发动了迫害。殉道确实成为了宗教团体之间争论的对象,但也有政治上的影响,因为菲律宾的西班牙人支持方济各会,而耶稣会则密切依赖澳门的葡萄牙人。
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48 weeks
期刊介绍: Culture & History Digital Journal features original scientific articles and review articles, aimed to contribute to the methodological debate among historians and other scholars specialized in the fields of Human and Social Sciences, at an international level. Using an interdisciplinary and transversal approach, this Journal poses a renovation of the studies on the past, relating them and dialoguing with the present, breaking the traditional forms of thinking based on chronology, diachronic analysis, and the classical facts and forms of thinking based exclusively on textual and documental analysis. By doing so, this Journal aims to promote not only new subjects of History, but also new forms of addressing its knowledge.
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