Silence
New York [N.Y.] : Taplinger Pub. Co., 1980.
Format: Book
Description: xviii, 201 pages ; 21 cm
Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Portuguese missionary in Japan ministers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ.
Subjects:
1500 - 1699
Christians -- Japan -- Fiction.
Missionaries -- Japan -- Fiction.
Persecution -- Japan -- Fiction.
Christians.
Civilization.
Missionaries.
Persecution.
Japan -- Civilization -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Japan -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction.
Japan.
1500 - 1699
Christians -- Japan -- Fiction.
Missionaries -- Japan -- Fiction.
Persecution -- Japan -- Fiction.
Christians.
Civilization.
Missionaries.
Persecution.
Japan -- Civilization -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Japan -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction.
Japan.
Target Audience: 870L
ISBN:
9781250082244 (pbk.)
Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of: Chinmoku.
Translation of: Chinmoku.