Giovanni Battista Sidotti
Giovanni Battista Sidotti was an Italian missionary and secular priest who traveled all the way to Japan to spread the word of God during a time when missionaries were punished for proselytizing. Sidotti attempted to disguise himself as a Samurai, but he was found out and immediately captured. Put under house arrest, Sidotti attempted and failed to convert his guards to Christianity and later died in at age 46 in an underground cell.
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