The Great Kyoto Martyrdom

In this article by Rev. Graham McDonnell, which you can read here, we read the best recent account of the 52 + 1 Martyrs of Kyoto, with due respect given Tecla and the child in her womb.  The author is rector at the local St. Francis Xavier Cathedral* of Kyoto only two miles from the site of Tecla's martyrdom, where a small, reddish-rock memorial stone now stands as seen here.

All things considered, Rev. McDonnell probably knows more than most about the Great Kyoto Martyrdom and has been very generous in sending me information about it, though we do think it unnecessary to give sentimental kudos to the former Buddhist priest who killed The Pregnant Tecla and Her Companions  due to the fact that he burned her faster rather than slower.  Killing of innocent people is still killing of innocent people, and regardless of whether Tecla was given a fast or slow execution, the blood of the martyrs will still cry to heaven for vengeance, as Holy Scripture tells us. 

And thus we come to Error #1 of the Modern Church in their regard to Tecla--that of an implied Universal Salvation (which was taught more overtly by JPII than Rev.

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McDonnell does here); that the Buddhists who killed Tecla, and the former Buddhist priest who killed her in particular, were really not such bad guys after all and we all will meet happily ever after in heaven anyway, so why bother about our religious differences.............

Right?

* a.k.a. "Kawaramachii-Sanjoo Cathedral," named for the intersection where it stands.  Japanese churches are often known by the intersection or city where they stand more than for their patron saint, probably because there are so few people identifying themselves as Catholics in Japan--less than .04%--and thus the civic names being more familiar to the general population.