What I have said may be realized from part of a letter dated in Nangasaqui October 14, 1619, from Father Matheo de Couros, [9] provincial of Japon, to Father Valerio de Ledesma, provincial of these islands.

Translated from Portuguese into Spanish it is as follows: "In regard to news from Japon I will not write you at length, since I understand that the father visitor has done so.

In temporal affairs everything is quiet.

Persecution of Christians has been and is very severe in Meaco, where almost sixty are prisoners for the faith.

Five or six of these Christians died in prison there, thoroughly resigned to the divine will.