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- 3. San Lorenzo Ruiz Born: Nov. 28,1594, Binondo,Manila Died: Sept. 29, 1637, Nagasaki, Japan Ideals: A. 1st. Filipino Saint B. Canonized by Saint John PaulII Feast Day: Sept. 28 Nationality: Filipino- Chinese
- 4. At a young age, Lorenzo served as an altar boy at the Binondo Church. He studied under the Dominican friars. After a few years, Ruiz earned the title of calligrapher because of his skillful penmanship. He became a member of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary. He married Rosario and they had two sons and a daughter. The Ruiz family led a generally peaceful, religious and comfortable life. However, while working as a clerk for the Binondo Church, Ruiz was falsely accused of killing a Spaniard. Thereby, he sought asylum on board a ship with the help of three Dominican priests.
- 5. On 27 September 1637, Lorenzo and his companions were taken to Nishizaka Hill, where they were tortured by being hung upside-down over a pit. He died two days later on 29 September 1637, aged 42. This form of torture was known as tsurushi (釣殺し) in Japanese or horca y hoya ("gallows and pit") in Spanish
- 8. St. Pedro Calungsod Born: July 21, 1654, Ginatilan, Cebu Died: April 2, 1672, Tumon, Tamuning, Guam Ideals: A. Sacristan and Missionary B. Canonized by Pope catechist Benedict XVI Feast Day: April 2 Nationality: Filipino-Visayan Migrant
- 9. In 1668, Calungsod, then around age 14, was amongst the exemplary young catechists chosen to accompany Spanish Jesuit missionaries to the Islas de los Ladrones (“Isles of Thieves”), which have since been renamed the Marianas Islands the year before to honor both the Virgin Mary and the mission’s benefactress, Maria Ana of Austria, Queen Regent of Spain
- 10. Calungsod accompanied the priest Diego San Vitores to Guam to catechize the native Chamorros. Shortly after their arrival, a Chinese man named Choco, a criminal from Manila who was exiled in Guam, began spreading rumors that the baptismal water used by missionaries was poisonous. As some sickly Chamorro infants who were baptized died, many believed the story and held the missionaries responsible.
- 11. Calungsod and San Vitores went to the village of Tumon, Guam on April 2, 1672. They offered the village ruler, Chief Matapang, an invitation to join the Christian faith. However, influenced by Choco, Chief Matapang refused the invitation and was determined to kill the missionaries. Matapang searched for an accomplice and found another villager, a pagan named Hirao, who eventually acceded when Matapang branded him coward
- 12. While Matapang was away from his house, Calungsod and San Vitores baptized his baby girls, with the consent of his wife, a Christian. This made Matapang even more furious and led to the violent killing of Calungsod and San Vitores. Matapang and Hirao undressed the bodies of Calungsod and San Vitores, tied large stones to their feet, and brought to Tumon Bay, dumping the bodies in the water.
- 15. For the first 300 years of Christianity, the followers of Jesus were under great pressure. They lived in what was known as the Roman Empire, it was illegalto be Christian in most of the Roman Empire.
- 16. Every person in the Roman Empire, no matter what their religion, was supposed to honor the Roman Emperor as a God, if they do would do that- once a year burn a little incense in front of a statue and say,”Cesar is God!-they could go home and mind their own business for another year
- 17. Christian refuse to do this, they knew there was only one God, and to say anything or anyone else was a God would be a betrayal of their friendship with God. When they stood true and refuse to honor the emperor as God, they got into trouble.
- 18. They were put in jail ( dark, terrible dungeons), they were sent into exile to desolate islands where they were forced to work in mines. And worst of all, if they were really stubborn and still wouldn’t deny Jesus, they were put to death.
- 19. The leader of the Roman Empire did this because they really wanted to discourage others from following Christianity. They also wanted to provide entertainment for the people of the empire. So when they executed Christians, they often did it in public, in the middle of huge crowds, like a big
- 20. There are many stories of the deaths of Christians that have come down to us over the centuries, these Christians died for their faith and still called “Martyrs” a word that means “witnesses” .Some of the well- known stories are the following;
- 21. The four Young Women who suf ered terribly for their faith
- 22. St. Lucy lost her eyes during her torture
- 23. St. Agnes was Beheaded
- 24. St. Agatha was palced on hot Coals
- 25. St. Cecilia was suffocated and then beheaded
- 26. St. Timothy and St. Maura After 20 days of marriage, they were ordered to turn them over the sacred books of Christian community. They refused and brought to prison . They were nailed on the wall of the prison and took nine days to die
- 27. St. Timothy and St. Maura
- 28. St. Marcellinus Was a priest was nimprisoned during the last major roman persecution. While in prison he convinced many of the loved of Jesus including his own jailer.
- 29. St. Timothy and St. Maura
- 30. All of these people may speak dif erent language wear dif erent clothes but still they have all something in common: they are with Jesus, and they can’t turn their backs on him, even if it means suf ering?
- 31. Question: If you were born in the time of the Roman Empire how would you professed your faith? If you stand firm, how would you wish to die?
- 33. Early Christians expected suffering. Christ had died on the cross, so there was no higher honor than to imitate that death through accepting martyrdom (witness by one’s blood). 1 peter 4:16 ,expressed “ if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name”
- 35. The roman religion was not intolerant. Rome had accepted into its pantheon deities from the Italian tribes and from Asia Minor, the great territorial Gods- such as Saturn in North Africa and Jehovah among the Jews-were accepted as the legal religion on the ground of their rites.
- 37. The famous emperor ended the persecution of Christians. But was he a true believer, or merely a superstitious political opportunist?
- 38. Constantine brought to an end of Christians persecution by the pagan roman empire,granted “ both to Christians and to all others fullauthority to follow whatever worship each person has desired.”
- 39. The agreement form one of the major watersheds in the history of Christianity, bidding farewell to the age of the martyrs and presaging the era of the Christian empire.
- 40. Constantine the Great The first emperor of Rome to come out unambiguously on the side of Christian Church. He was born on February 27, 272 in military town of Naissus-modern name Yugoslavia.
- 41. His father, Constantius, was an army of icer, Helena her mother divorced probably 290 because of political aspirations. Helena became a Christian –and one of the outsanding piety only after his son’s conversion. St. Ignatius of Antioch
- 42. “ I am the wheat of God and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God” so wrote Bishop Ignatius of Antioch (Syria)as he was being taken to Rome under close military guard.
- 43. Ignatius was martyred in Rome during the reign of Emperor Trajan, and tradition holds that he died in the colosseum. The known “Colosseum” is located in Rome, Italy. In the history of the church, a lot of Christians were martuyred there and considering entertainment. Their way of killing Christians were crucial because some of them were fed to the wild beast or animals. Some of them through sword.
- 44. St. Constantine the Great
- 45. St. Ignatius of Antioch