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Actually, over 200 years of vigorous persecution could not root out the Christian faith from the shepherdless flock of Japan. A few years after Commodore Perry's reopening of Japan to the West in 1853, Catholic missionaries discovered around 50,000 Christians isolated in little pockets throughout the country . . . These Japanese descendants of the martyrs of Nagasaki and Miyako discovered the missionaries. These latter were cautiously approached and by their answers to three questions were recognized as the successors of the i;th century Japanese pastors. The questions were: Did they come from the Pope in Rome? Were they...
...bishop dies and his place is taken by another. But in no case are the faithful shepherdless, for always, in Christian parlance, there remains the Great Shepherd...
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