Category

Martyr & Persecution Sites

The cost of confession, remembered.

3 destinations

3/5 Significance

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Canterbury Cathedral

Four knights murdered an archbishop at the altar in 1170 and made this the greatest pilgrimage site in medieval England.

3/5 · Well attested

3/5 Significance

Nagasaki, Japan

Twenty-Six Martyrs Monument

Six friars, three Jesuits and seventeen Japanese laymen were crucified on Nishizaka Hill in 1597 — and the church went underground for 250 years.

3/5 · Well attested

2/5 Significance

Rome, Italy

The Colosseum

Whether Christians died in this particular arena is disputed — that the empire killed them for the Name is not.

2/5 · Historically linked