Let all the nations praise You:
Thomas Tsugi was born around the year 1571 in Japan, to a wealthy family of Japanese nobility. Educated by the priests of the Society of Jesus at Arima, he joined the order while quite young, around 1588. As a Jesuit, Thomas traveled Japan and became very popular as an eloquent and persuasive preacher….
I wonder, what would the world look like today if Christianity had not been driven underground in China and Japan? This long, long withholding of the Gospel from the people: What good will God bring of it, ultimately?
Perhaps it’s so that someday we’ll have another one billion fervent Christians, instead of one billion bored post-Christian apostates?
It hasn’t been “underground” in Japan for a very long time — very different from China.