Not all Japanese Christians eagerly raced toward martyrdom or joined the Shimabara Rebellion. Many chose to move their faith underground, to forge a clandestine faith, even if it meant occasionally denying Christ before the inquisitors. To openly profess their Christianity meant immediate execution and the death of the faith for any future generations o…
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