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Marcello Francesco Mastrilli (1603 - Oct 17, 1637) was an Italian Jesuit missionary who was martyred in Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate, which had banned Christianity in 1614. After sailing for Japan out to find and possibly reconvert the notorious apostate Christavao Ferreira, who went to Japan and renounced his faith there, he was arrested as soon as he got off his ship. After three days of torture in the pit of Nagasaki, he was beheaded.[1][2][3]
Supposedly susceptible to visions (ridiculously so, according to the virulently anti-Jesuit writer Giovanni Battista Nicolini[4]), he was particularly conducive to apparitions of Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier, who appeared to him twice, in 1633 and in 1643, and foretold him his martyrdom. St. Frances Xavier is credited with twice miraculously restoring Mastrilli's health, and since the account reportedly spread quickly through Italy, the "novena of grace," in honor of St. Francis Xavier, was established.[5] Mastrilli's initiative is supposedly to thank for the presence of a silver urn in the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Old Goa, which houses relics of the body of St. Francis Xavier.[6]
References
- ^ Cieslik, Hubert (1973). "The Case of Christavao Ferreira". Monumenta Nipponica. 29.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameters:|month=,|quotes=, and|coauthors=(help). Reprinted in Stephen Turnbull (ed.), Japan's Hidden Christians, 1549-1999 (Routledge, 2000; ISBN 9781873410516): 1-54. http://books.google.com/books?id=TGtLVJWKlCYC. Retrieved 2008-11-30. - ^ A., Volpe (1985). "Marcello Mastrilli: una vita per le missioni". Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu Roma. 54 (108): 333–345.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameters:|month=,|quotes=, and|coauthors=(help) - ^ Lach, Donald F. (1998). Asia in the Making of Europe: A Century of Advance. Book 2, South Asia. U of Chicago P. p. 214. ISBN 9780226467658. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Nicolini, Giovanni Battista (1854). History of the Jesuits. H.G. Bohn. p. 324. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "Novena". Catholic Encyclopedia, 1914 edition. www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "Basilica of Bom Jesus". Goa Jesuits. 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
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