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On 6 October 1619, 52 Christians, 11 of them children, were burned at Rokujō-gawara on the Kamo River (near today's Shōmen Bridge) on the orders of shogun Tokugawa Hidetada.
On 6 October 1619, 52 Christians, 11 of them children, were burned at Rokujō-gawara on the Kamo River (near today's Shōmen Bridge) on the orders of shogun Tokugawa Hidetada. Beatified in 2008 among the 188 Martyrs. A stone marker stands on the west side of Kawabata-dōri.
