{"id":2394,"date":"2009-09-07T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T13:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2009-09-07T08:34:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T13:34:20","slug":"blessed-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/blessed-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Thomas Tsugi, martyr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Let all the nations praise You:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/catholicexchange.com\/2009\/09\/07\/97063\/#\">Thomas Tsugi was born around the year 1571<\/a> 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&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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?<br \/>\nPerhaps it&#8217;s so that someday we&#8217;ll have another one billion fervent Christians, instead of one billion bored post-Christian apostates?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/blessed-thomas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Thomas Tsugi, martyr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}