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A04361	The theater of Iaponia's constancy in which an hundred and eighteene glorious martyrs suffered death for Christ, in the yeare of our Lord 1622. Also, a briefe relation of the many, and wonderfull miracles, it hath pleased God lately to worke, by the merits and intercession of S. Ignatius, founder of the Society of Iesus, at Munebrega a towne in Spayne, in the moneths of Aprill and May, of the yeare 1623. Both faithfully translated out of Spanish originalls, lately printed at Madrid.; Teatro de la constancia japonesa.	Badduley, William, b. 1597.	1624 (1624)	STC 14475; ESTC S106585	23,463	52

owne innocent bloud and bowled tumbled them vp and downe before their eyes But when they saw that the holy Confessours could not be daunted or discomfited with this they kindled the fire The fuell now which on euery side enuironed the fiue and twenty Holy Martyrs began indeed to flame and burne vehemently But as many with particuler diligence obserued there was a great space left betwixt the fire and the Religious men and as some that were more curious then others and tooke the measure of it say it was no lesse then three yards distant frō them on euery side And this was also done of set purpose that they might be tormented consumed by little and little with a slow lingring fire and therfore the Officers were still ready at hand to quench the flame when it burned too fast for feare of dispatching them too soone But for what end did they this For no other surely but that such as would forsake their faith and woorship their false Gods might the more easily escape And for this purpose also they left their bands so slacke that they might themselues easily vntye thē and he that would yeild to the Presidents offer before mentioned might therby saue his life And for the same cause likewise they set the gate of the place of Executiō wide open that whosoeuer would might cast downe his crowne of Martyrdome and escape both fire and sword But there was not found one amongst all these Glorious Confessours who did not in the very middest of the scorching flames reioyce and triumph in our Lord Who did not fixe his eyes vpon Heauen with all hope and confidence in God and who did not finally indure the burning fire with a quiet and cheerfull heart and with his whole body so immoueable Ac si dura silex vel stet Marpesia cautes As if he had byn as hard as flint Which Iron cannot feele Or harder then Marpesian rockes That blunt the sharpest steele Neither was it for any short tyme that this admirable Constancy of the valiant Champions remained still inuincible and vndaunted in the middest of the raging flames For there wanted not some whose diligence is greatly to be commended who hauing of purpose brought hower-glasses with them to note the tyme affirme that most of these holy Martyrs endured with incredible courage and magnanimity this horrible tormēt for the space of an hower and a halfe and some others for the space of two whole howers Nay which is more concerning the blessed Martyr F. Sebastian Quimura of the Society of IESVS they do constantly report that they saw him broyling aliue in the fire for the space of three whole howers diligētly noted by the hower-glasses to the wonderfull astonishment of the Barbarous Gentils who for many dayes after did talke of nothing else but of this holy Martyrs so long sufferance that not without great wonder and admiration One thing there was that amongst the rest was a chiefe and speciall cause of the great courage and constancy of these noble Champions I meane the so extraordinary and great concourse of Christians that were present which could not choose but be so much the greater by how much they had notice of the time place long before by meanes aswell of the Proclamation as also in regard of the desire they had to see so many famous Religious men both of Europe and Iaponia and such venerable Priests who had so long laboured and taken paines in the Vineyard of Iaponia some for twenty some for twenty fiue yea and some for whole thirty yeares togeather But that we may make some ghesse at the number of the spectatours it will not be amisse to call to mind what Father Iohn Baptista de Baeza of the Society of IESVS Rectour of Nangasachi who hath dwelt in Iaponia now full foure and thirty yeares doth testify in his Letters sent from thence to Manila that there were to be found in that one only Citty of Nangasachi and in the Territory of the same aboue fifty thousand Christians so as there were present an infinite number of the said Christians to see and with great ioy and comfort to behold how cheerfully these holy Martyrs all ended their liues in the midst of burning flames and how some of them as they were most pittifully broyling humbly falling vpon their knees dyed most sweetly imbracing and kissing their stakes which now togeather with the Martyrs were halfe consumed by the fire The fire was no sooner out but the Christians instantly with great violence brake into the place of Execution to reuerence and gather vp the sacred Reliques The Barbarous Guard begā at first to oppose themselues against them laying about them as hard as they could with their weapons but when they saw they could not preuaile by this meanes they inuented another that therby both themselues might seeme to depart with victory from the holy Bodyes and also that there should not remaine the least iote or signe of the sacred Reliques in memory of the Martyrs The President therfore commanded a huge deepe pit to be made in the ground and in the same a very great fire of wood and all the bodies of the blessed Martyrs togeather with the pillars and stakes whervnto they had byn tyed to be cast into the same and there burnt to ashes and lastly all the ashes very carefully put in sackes to be carryed in ships farre out of the sight of Nangasachi and there to be scattered and cast into the mayne sea The day next ensuing after this most illustrious Martyrdome which was the eleauenth of September was beheaded M. Gaspar Cotengan-doxico who was wont to accompany Father Camillus Constantius of the Society of IESVS the Apostle of Iaponia and who by trauailing vp and downe diuers parts of the Country did greatly assist him in the conuersion of the Infidels There were also beheaded with him two children that were the sonnes of Martyrs one wherof was but seauen the other a little aboue nine yeares old Another Christian also as he was gathering vp some small Reliques or ashes of the sacred bodyes of the burned Martyrs which were kept with watch ward within the forsaid place of Execution was in the night apprehended and brought before the Gouernour Who when he vnderstood that he was a Cittizen of Omura sent him thither presently as prisoner where the Gouernour of that Citty as soone as he arriued put both him and all his family to death and so for the fayth of Christ they all obtayned a crowne of Martyrdome The twelfth day of September there was at Omura a famous Martyrdome of the R. Father Thomas de Summarega one of the most auncient amongst those of S. Dominick Order that had laboured in the vineyard of Iaponia and of the R. Father Apollinaris Franco none of the last or least of the Iaponian Apostles of the Order of S. Francis and also of diuers other Iaponians who were all consumed by fire for the

Fathers ceased not to comfort their afflicted children bidding them be of good comfort encouraging them to put their trust in the Fatherly protection of Almighty God assuring them that his Infinite Goodnes would neuer let them want other Fathers and Maisters to nourish and increase their good desires And so finally exhorting animating them to perseuere constantly in the sincere and true fayth of IESVS Christ euen vntill death they tooke their last farewells Being now come vnto the place of execution the Officers assigned euery one a pillar or stake wherat he was to be burned which euery one of the holy Priests before they were bound vnto them falling downe vpon his knees with great reuerence imbraced and saluted with a thousand kisses The like also did the lay Religious Brothers being moued therunto by the pious example of the Priests The sight wherof was a cause of great admiration to the Beholders and stirred vp in the harts of many so great feeling of deuotion that they could not refraine from teares In this meane tyme whilest those thirty prisoners which as before we recounted had bene sent backe with their sentence of death to the prison in the same Citty were coming towards the same place of execution the officers were busied in binding to their seuerall pillars the fiue and twenty before named all whome they bound but very loosely in order following Vnto the foure first pillars were bound foure Men condemned for no other crime but only because they had sometimes entertained and lodged in their houses with great charity some of the sayd Religious Fathers Next vnto these stood the one and twenty Religious men some of Europe and the rest of Iaponia The first place amongst these was allotted to the Reuerend Father Charles Spinola an Italian Priest of the Society of IESVS borne in Genua and descended of the renowed Bloud and Family of the Spinola's greatly reuerenced and accounted of amongst all men by reason of his Birth but much more in regard of his excellent Vertue his rare parts and singular endowmēts both of mind and body as also for his excessiue and continuall labours paines employed in cultiuating the vineyard of Christ IESVS in Iaponia so far from his Natiue Country which he and all the rest of those who were of Europe had forsakē for the loue of God to gaine soules in India After Father Spinola followed the Reuerēd Fa. Angelus Ferrerius of the order of S. Dominicke Fa. Ioseph de S. Iacintho of the same Order Fa. Iacinthus also of the same Then followed Father Sebastian Quimura of the Society of IESVS a Cittizen of Firandum borne in Iaponia who had liued there thirty yeares in the Society of IESVS of which he had bene Priest for the space of twenty being himself the first Iaponian that euer tooke vpō him the holy Order of Priesthood wherin he shewed himselfe a most worthy labourer in the vineyard of his Country a mā endowed with singular Vertues and an excellent Preacher in the Iaponian language Then followed the Reuerend Father Peter de Auila of the order of S. Francis Father Richard de S. Anna of the same Order Father Alfonsus de Mena of the order of S. Dominicke Father Francis de Morales of the same They that were not Priests were placed in this order Vincentius a Religious Brother of the order of Saint Francis borne in Europe Anthony Fugia a Iaponian of the Society of IESVS Gonsaluus Fusay of the same Society and Countrey Petrus Zampo of the same both religion and Countrey Michael Iaponensis of the same Order After these againe followed foure other of the order of S. Dominicke And last of all were brought three of the Society of IESVS borne in Iaponia to wit Thomas Acasgin Ludouicus Cauarato who were likewise bound to their pillars and Iohn Chacoco who alone amongst those fiue and twenty that were condemned to the fire for want of a pillar whereat to be burned was beheaded presently and first of all obtayned the crowne of Martyrdome by the sword So as to reckon them ouer againe there were of secular men Foure that were cōdemned for receiuing of the Religious Fathers into their houses Nine religious men of the order of S. Dominicke Three of Saint Francis and Nine of the Society of IESVS all which being put together do make the full number of fiue and twenty Crowned-Martyrs The Executioners had scarce made an end of placing and binding these vnto their pillars when behold that other new troupe of thirty glorious Confessours which were condemned to be beheaded were brought to the same place who as soone as they saw the religious men they fell sodainly to imbracing and saluting them with many teares and sighes Amongst the rest a certaine Matrone called Isabella Fernandez came running to the pillar wherunto Father Charles Spinola was bound to giue him the last farewell She was the wydow of a most noble Martyr who for hauing entertained the said Father in his house had vnder gone a glorious death She had a little child called Ignatius scarce fiue yeares old whom she most deerely and tenderly loued When she was euen now ready to lay hold vpon the pillar and Father Charles ready to salute her he cryed out vnto her ô Isabella Isabella vbi est tuus Ignatiolus vbi est vbi est inquam filiolus tuus Where is your little Ignatius where is I say your little Sonne Isabella hearing this as she had her hart all inflamed and set on fire and to the end she might make answere no lesse by deedes thē by words made no more a doe but straight fetching forth her little One from amongst the throng of people tooke him in her armes and lifting him vp towards Heauen presented him before the Father saying Behold heere my dearest Father behold my little Sonne behold heere I bring you my little Ignatius I offer you my little sonne that he may be sacrificed vnto God and become a martyr togeather with his mother in this your Company When Father Charles saw and heard the Mother vtter such resolute speaches cōcerning her little sōne it is incredible what comfort and spirituall ioy he conceiued in his soule Now approached the happy houre so much longed for of all this couragious Troupe now was the fuell all set ready round about the pillars but before the fire was put vnto it the Executioners with most barbarous cruelty cut off the heads of those thirty men and women as also of twelue young children the eldest whereof was not yet full ten yeares old And when it was demanded of them Why they beheaded these before they had burned the others that came first to the stake They answered they did it to terrify and disanimate them that they might haue little courage to vndergoe the tormēt of the fire And to the end they might better accomplish what they did pretend they tooke vp the heads of those whome they had slaine yet warme and all-imbrued with their

THE THEATER Of Iaponia's Constancy IN WHICH An Hundred Eighteene Glorious Martyrs suffered Death for Christ in the yeare of our Lord 1622. ALSO A briefe Relation of the many and wonderfull Miracles it hath pleased God lately to worke by the Merits and Intercession of S. IGNATIVS Founder of the Society of IESVS at Munebrega a Towne in Spayne in the Moneths of Aprill and May of the yeare 1623. Both faithfully Translated out of the Spanish Originalls lately printed at Madrid IHS Mirabilis Deus in Sanctis suis Psal 67. Permissu Superiorum M.DC.XXIIII THE THEATER OF IAPONIA'S CONSTANCY THE cause of the ensuing so strange and cruell Martyrdomes such as were neuer heard of in the Kingdom of Iaponia since the Persecution against the Christians there began was this as followeth Whereas the Emperour of Iaponia some yeares past had forbidden by Proclamation throughout all the Prouinces of that Kingdome vpō paine of death that no Sayler or Mariner should bring any Christian Religious man into Iaponia which was a thing very easy to be done in regard that Manila the chiefe Citty of the Philippine Ilands is so neare and where there is so great trafficke betweene the Spanyards and Iaponians Notwithstanding some there were both Christians and Catholike Marriners who styrred vp with zeale of Gods Honour not regarding the threats and penaltyes of the lawes did bring at sundry tymes from Manila into Iaponia many Religious men in secular apparell to cultiuate and manure that new-planted Vineyard of this new-found Christendome Amongst the sayd Marriners there was one more famous thē the rest Captayne of a ship called Ioachim who as he sayled from Manila towards Iaponia carried with him two very Reuerend Religious men the one wherof was called Father Pedro de Zuniga of the Order of S. Austen and the other Father Lewis de Flores of the Order of S. Dominicke whome he could not transport so secretly but they were betrayed by certayne Hollande s who euen vpō the very shoare of Iaponia inuaded and robbed Ioachims ship and also accused him before the Emperours Officers for bringing the sayd Religious men with him into Iaponia contrary to the Emperours Proclamation And for this cause was Ioachim presently cast into prison at Firandum togeather with the sayd two Fathers and all the other Marriners that were Christians There was at that tyme in the same Citty residing another Religious mā of the order of S. Dominick who went about to deliuer the foresayd Father Lewis out of prison which indeed he had almost effected togeather with the deliuery of many more Christians that were in the same Prison but because he could not breake open the prison doores without great noyse nor bring to passe what he had determined with that secrecy he desired his plot was soone discouered and all the Prisoners brought backe againe into prison When the Emperour heard of this he tooke the matter so heynously and was so inraged against the Christians aswell in regard of the new comming of those Religious men into his Kingdome to preach the Christian fayth as also because they had broken his Maiesties prison that without delay he commāded the Gouernour of Nangasachi presētly to repayre to Firandum and there put to death first of all Ioachim the Captayne and afterwards the two Religious men that he brought with him as also all the other Marriners that were Christians Moreouer he commanded that all other Religious men whether they were of Europe or of Iaponia who were imprisoned in diuers Cittyes should be put to death And the like punishment he charged to be inflicted vpon all Widows and Orphanes whose Husbands or Parents had in the former Persecution of late yeares suffered death for the fayth of Christ The Gouernour with all speed at the Emperours commaundment came to Firandum where calling for the prisoners he began to examine and aske them many questions as whether they were Christians From whence they came Of what Nation they were And when and where they were baptized Nor he did forget now and then to exhort them to renounce their Fayth promising them their liues if they would so do affirming that he had full power and Commissiō from the Emperour for what he promised But to this last one and the selfe same most constant Reply was made by all That nothing in the world should cause them deny their fayth nor breake the promise they had made to IESVS CHRIST in Baptisme Vpon which answere and firme resolution the Gouernour presently pronounced sentence and condemned the Captayne Ioachim and the two Religious Fathers Pedro de Zuniga the Augustine Friar and Father Lewis de Flores the Dominican to be burned aliue the rest of the Marriners who were twelue in number to be beheaded Now these holy Confessours of IESVS CHRIST hauing receaued this doom the more to increase their ioy and assurance of dying for Christs sake demanded of the Gouernour for what cause he adiudged them to death And they receiued this answere in very plaine tearmes to wit that the Religious men must dye because they had against the Emperours decree entred into Iaponia to preach the law of Christ and the rest for that they had brought the said Preachers into the Countrey to that end Which plaine declaration was an exceeding ioy and Iubily of heart vnto them all when they saw themselues condemned to death for the fayth and loue of IESVS CHRIST The place appointed for the execution was out of the Citty of Firandum where there was a faire and large plot of ground like vnto an Amphitheater all inclosed round with woodden rayles Hither were the holy Cōfessours brought forth of the Citty with infinite multitudes of people and the three foremost placed ech one at a pillar or stake whereunto they were bound with great aboundance of fagots and wood layd round about them But before the fire was kindled the other twelue Marriners heads were strokē off within the foresaid place before the eyes of the Holy Confessours that stood now ready at the stake to be burned Heere now the good Captayne Ioachim made knowne the force of Christian Eloquence being not only permitted but also commanded by the sayd two Religious Fathers his Companions who by reason of the short tyme of their abode in Iaponia had not yet learned the language of that countrey to professe the fayth of Christ in the name of all the rest Of whome such as did both see and heare him do affirme that he seemed rather to speake like an Apostle then an ordinary Preacher much lesse a poore Marriner such was the feruour such the courage wherewith he preached IESVS CHRIST in the very middest of the fyre and smoke And by how much more the barbarous Gentils endeauoured aswell by often interrupting him as by threats to make him hold his peace so much the more did he cry out and say that it was meet he should rather obey God then Man Neyther can I be terrified sayd

fayth and loue of IESVS Christ Amongst these was a certaine Woman whose admirable piety and deuotion deserueth euerlasting memory for that after she had beene found by the Officers amongst the sacred Reliques of the fornamed holy Martyrs and had already giuen sufficiēt testimony both by praying cōmending her selfe to their merits what she was being demanded what she was doyng whether she were a Christiā or no answered very couragiously that they might easily see if they had eyes by what she did that she was a Christian And what said she will you haue any thing else with me For this her resolute answere they made no more a doe but instantly in the same place cut off her head and cast her body vpon the heape of the rest of the Martyrs which together with hers do in all make the number of fifteene more Ten other holy Martyrs also togeather with Augustine Onda of the Society of IESVS who were all companions to Father Camillus Constantius of the same Society were put to death at Yquinotima a Towne of Iaponia nere vnto Firandum for the fayth of Christ being all burned aliue and consumed to ashes But the happy death of Father Camillus fell vpon the fifteenth day of September at Firandum who there obteined a Crowne of Glory ending the course of his Martyrdome by fire where the concourse of people was exceeding great by reason that there were then lying in the Hauen at anker by Firandum thirteene English and Holland ships well fraught with merchādize and consequently no small store of passengers Marriners souldiers factours and the like that came to see this said spectacle Father Camillus was an Italian borne in Romagnia who could speake the Flemish tongue well and diuers other languages besides He was a man of an Apostolicall spirit of which he gaue sufficiēt testimony by preaching in diuers Countries wherby he greatly moued the peoples hearts aswell by reason of his rare Eloquence as of the vehement feruour of his deuotion In this Amphitheater where he was to be consumed by fire from out the pile of wood as from some chaire or pulpit he made a speach vnto all the spectatours But the Epilogue or Conclusion therof he conuerted vnto the Iaponians themselues alone of whose customes and ceremonies he had got no small knowledge in which he most efficaciously proued and concluded that the fayth of IESVS Christ was both true necessary and secure And whilst be spake thus he did so rauish the Iaponians hearts with the sweet harmony of his Eloquence that they would not suffer the fire to be kindled so soone as otherwise it should haue byn that they might not be so soone depriued of that sweet fruite of his diuine speach Neyther was the heat of the fire able to ouercome that heat of Charity which burned within his brest For euen after that the wood was all set on fire round about him he still cast out fiery words on euery side vnto all the beholders and could neuer make an end of speaking vntill he made an end of liuing The second day of October Nine other noble Martyrs illustrated the Citty of Nangasachi with their glorious deathes wherof three little children died māfully for the fayth of Christ But that which happened to one of the nine is admirable to recount For being in most cruell manner tortured for the space of seauen dayes vpon the Racke because he refused to betray and discouer certaine Religious men notwithstanding all their racking they were not able to wrest from him any other words then Iesus Maria O Iesus Maria O what an ardent and burning desire haue I to enter into the Glory of my Iesus with such other like exclamations So as the Executioners now perceiuing on the one side that they laboured in vaine and on the other side being ashamed to acknowledge themselues to be ouercome by a Christian they opened O most barbarous or rather inhumane cruelty they opened I say a hole in the flesh of his shoulder and therin poured boyling lead Notwithstanding all this the valiant Champion of IESVS Christ remained still so inuincible that the Executioners quite despayring of the victory with all rage and fury cast him together withall his family into the fire and when there was nothing else of them left but ashes they gathered them vp and threw it into the sea The 23. of September fiue other Christians did consecrate their liues to God for hauing entertained and hidden in their houses the holy Martyr Father Hyacinthus a Religious man of the Order of S. Dominicke wherof three to wit the husband his wife and their Child were burned and the other two beheaded The 27. day of May fower miles from Firandum two other Christians were put to death for the loue of IESVS Christ the one for hauing lodged Father Camillus in his house the other for hauing carryed him in his Barke to diuers places to and fro to preach the holy Ghospell of Christ Not long after this happened a most rare Martyrdome of a very Venerable man of fourescore and fiue yeares old This man was cast headlong into the sea hauing tyed vnto his feet two so huge great stones that one of them would haue bene inough to load foure lusty strong fellowes who instantly and as it were in the twinckling of an eye sunke downe to the very bottome but behold a very strang thing as if both he and the two great stones also had beene made of the lightest Corke he came gliding vp againe to the very top where swimming aboue the water like the swan he began to sing before his death and with a most sweet pleasant voice he repeated thrice this mellifluous ditty Iesus Maria Iesus Maria Iesus Maria and then by the weight of the stoones being drawne downe againe into the sea neuer appeared more This Miraculous sight and Martyrdome fell vpon the 2. of Iune to the great admiration of all the beholders and particular ioy and comfort of innumerable Christians that were present and did see the same Vpon the next day after which was the 3. of Iune another Christian man and companion of Father Camillus Constantius of the Society of IESVS was likewise put to death for hauing assisted him in Ecclesiastical functions and ministeries And vpon the 8. day of the same Moneth another also suffered death for the same cause Vpon the 28 of Iuly were three other Christians put to death for a very strange cause for that forsooth they would not lend their horses to carry the holy Martyrs to execution for indeed the Christians did piously belieue and persuade themselues that it was a sinne for any of them so lend his horse to help forward the execution of so barbarous a Cruelty Two others also that were Twinnes by birth were put to a cruell Martyrdome only for animating and encouraging of other Martyrs that were strugling hand to hād with death in a grieuous agony And another likewise in another place was crowned