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'''Giuseppe di Chiara''' (1602 – 24 August 1685) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[Jesuit]] missionary active in 17th century [[Japan]].<ref name="u">[http://www.uky.edu/Centers/Asia/SECAAS/Seras/2012/13_Reclaiming_the_Universal.pdf Reclaiming the Universal: Intercultural Subjectivity in the Life and Work of Endo Shusaku], uky.edu; accessed 15 January 2017.</ref>
'''Giuseppe di Chiara''' (1602 – 24 August 1685) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[Jesuit]] missionary active in 17th century [[Japan]].<ref name="u">[http://www.uky.edu/Centers/Asia/SECAAS/Seras/2012/13_Reclaiming_the_Universal.pdf Reclaiming the Universal: Intercultural Subjectivity in the Life and Work of Endo Shusaku], uky.edu; accessed 15 January 2017.</ref>


Chiara was born in [[Palermo]], [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. He entered Japan at a time when Christianity was [[Kakure Kirishitan|strictly forbidden]] in an attempt to locate fellow priest [[Cristóvão Ferreira]] who had [[Apostasy|apostatized]] his Christian faith at the hands of torture by the Japanese authorities in 1633. Chiara was also tortured and eventually became an apostate as well. After the [[Shimabara Rebellion]] in 1638, he arrived on the island of Oshima and was immediately arrested in June 1643.<ref>http://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/real-life-silences-character</ref> He later married a Japanese woman, taking the name and [[samurai]] status of her late husband, Okamoto San'emon ([[Japanese language|Japanese]]: 岡本三右衛門), and lived in Japan until his death in 1685.
Chiara was born in [[Palermo]], [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. He entered Japan at a time when Christianity was [[Kakure Kirishitan|strictly forbidden]], in an attempt to locate fellow priest [[Cristóvão Ferreira]] who had [[Apostasy|apostatized]] his Christian faith at the hands of torture by the Japanese authorities in 1633. Chiara was also tortured and eventually became an apostate as well. After the [[Shimabara Rebellion]] in 1638, he arrived on the island of Oshima and was immediately arrested in June 1643.<ref>http://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/real-life-silences-character</ref> He later married a Japanese woman, taking the name and [[samurai]] status of her late husband, Okamoto San'emon ([[Japanese language|Japanese]]: 岡本三右衛門), and lived in Japan until his death in 1685.


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Giuseppe di Chiara (1602 – 24 August 1685) was an Italian Jesuit missionary active in 17th century Japan.[1]

Chiara was born in Palermo, Kingdom of Sicily. He entered Japan at a time when Christianity was strictly forbidden, in an attempt to locate fellow priest Cristóvão Ferreira who had apostatized his Christian faith at the hands of torture by the Japanese authorities in 1633. Chiara was also tortured and eventually became an apostate as well. After the Shimabara Rebellion in 1638, he arrived on the island of Oshima and was immediately arrested in June 1643.[2] He later married a Japanese woman, taking the name and samurai status of her late husband, Okamoto San'emon (Japanese: 岡本三右衛門), and lived in Japan until his death in 1685.

Death

Di Chiara died on 24 August 1685 in Edo, at the age of 83.

In popular culture

Chiara was the historical basis for the lead character of Sebastião Rodrigues in the novel Silence by Shūsaku Endō.[1] He was portrayed by David Lampson in the 1971 film version and by Andrew Garfield in the 2016 film version.

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