RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Cristóvão Ferreira

1580 - 1650

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Cristóvão Ferreira (c. 1580–1650) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and Jesuit missionary who committed apostasy after being captured and tortured during the anti-Christian purges in 17th-century Japan. During the Tokugawa shogunate, Christian missionaries and their Japanese followers were persecuted, arrested and executed. Authorities were concerned that the religion was making followers loyal to Christian nations rather than the Emperor or the shogunate. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cristóvão Ferreira is the 1,379th most popular religious figure (down from 1,234th in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 148th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Portuguese Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Cristóvão Ferreira ranks 1,379 out of 3,187. Before him are Barsanuphius, Dominik Duka, Shinran, Ignatius IV of Antioch, Shamgar, and Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni. After him are Sultan Walad, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, Vitalis of Milan, Gisela, Abbess of Chelles, and Henri Estienne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Cristóvão Ferreira ranks 11. Before him are Gabriel Bethlen, Josaphat Kuntsevych, Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Ernst von Mansfeld, Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. After him are Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, Augusta of Denmark, António de Andrade, Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, Andrea Falconieri, and Gaspar de Borja y Velasco. Among people deceased in 1650, Cristóvão Ferreira ranks 9. Before him are Dorgon, Christoph Scheiner, Tukaram, Matthäus Merian, Bernhardus Varenius, and Hanzade Sultan. After him are James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, Catalina de Erauso, Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg, Manuel Cardoso, and İbrahim Peçevi.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Cristóvão Ferreira ranks 157 out of 633. Before him are Manuel Gomes da Costa (1863), Gil Vicente (1465), Infanta Antónia of Portugal (1845), Manuel Monteiro de Castro (1938), Ferdinand, Count of Flanders (1188), and Álvaro Cunhal (1913). After him are Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (1499), José Sócrates (1957), John de Britto (1647), José Mendes Cabeçadas (1883), Isabel of Barcelos (1402), and Humberto Delgado (1906).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Portugal

Among religious figures born in Portugal, Cristóvão Ferreira ranks 7. Before him are Anthony of Padua (1195), Pope John XXI (1215), Sister Lúcia (1907), John of God (1495), José Saraiva Martins (1932), and Manuel Monteiro de Castro (1938). After him are John de Britto (1647), Beatrice of Silva (1424), Pelagio Galvani (1165), António de Andrade (1580), José Policarpo (1936), and Manuel Clemente (1948).

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