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Peter Baptist and Companions

About the year 1592 Hideyoshi, the military dictator of Japan, planned to invade and conquer the Philippine Islands, situated near his domain but belonging at the time to the Spanish crown.

To negotiate peace, King Philip II of Spain delegated Father Peter Baptist Blasquez, a Franciscan of Manila, as his ambassador to Hideyoshi.

Father Peter Baptist, who came from an ancient Spanish family of the nobility, was learned, capable, and known for his holy life.

He arrived in Japan with three companions at the end of the month of June in 1593. He succeeded in winning the dictator to terms of peace and even obtained permission to spread Christianity throughout Japan without interference.

So Peter Baptist founded several convents of his order, built churches and hospitals, and in company with his associates converted hundreds of pagans to Christianity.

Hideyoshi even offered them a neglected temple in his capital city Miyako, with permiss