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Show HONOR MARTYRS OF NIPPON Japanese Catholics Have Set Aslds February 5 as the Holiest Day -' - In Their Calendar. " atholics of Japan have eet ' bruary 5 as the festival of i' cyrs of Nippon. This day Is .;' iollest day of the year. St. s Xavier Introduced Christianity .Ipan early in the sixteenth cen-l.His cen-l.His not made much prog-jnt-inu!ation of 70,000,000 irzZ " f Shinto and Buddha. Ji ' -V f- 115.0 Christians In Japan, oi --.:.om' 75,000 are Catholics and 40,000 Protestants. A number of Jesuit missionaries followed fol-lowed St. Francis to the east, and no' opposition to Christianity was encountered encoun-tered until 40. years after the pioneer's death. Then a rigid persecution was begun and thousands of Christinas were murdered. All Christian rites were forbidden. Japanese converts banded together in a confraternity of martyrs, for the purpose of dying 'for Christ. Many little children joined the organization. All, or as many as were, caught, were put to death. NoJ-'-o'' as well as the poor shared fate. Some were burled al' starvation, whil-' The festW' . these ' fcfr- stran-.y stran-.y .,v,;iti" were naturally "V imfuiaoD. Coming to e archway adorned with sculp-"Running sculp-"Running the street, one of the X'.v went up to a .nan who was 'ork". - at the side of the arch and Bsked '-an you please tell us what ?hl8 is" W'"'ut t,,rnlng h S ' , iiMl- "Tlds? This is a th r""Yes es'but It's this build-Tn build-Tn this arch, M ,ike . t0 "I something ob"t." The native : to the middle of the street Xre e visitors were standing and T , i nertct.s mm-e attentively at looked P PS h.s Hrl before': w.,H u.d 1 ,. rnrmnli"" ; he didn t seem ve no lnfri" wipe even. "Wee!, he , t0 ltrl?lV ' , Ji, "there's nae doot I v |