![]() ![]() “’Silence’ asks some of the absolutely most difficult questions about human life and death and faith. Johnston, an Irish Jesuit working in Japan, was a close friend of Endo’s and “was with Endo on his deathbed,” Fr. Ucerler has a unique vantage point on “Silence.” His spiritual adviser for many years was Jesuit Father William Johnston, who translated Endo’s book from Japanese into English.įr. ![]() “He was the great missionary, the superior of all Jesuit missionaries, and the first to renounce his faith under torture.”įr. Ucerler, SJ, a professor at the University of San Francisco and an expert in Japanese Christian history. “Ferreira’s story is one of the most dramatic stories of Christianity and missionary history of all time,” says Fr. Cristóvão Ferreira, the Portuguese provincial superior of the Jesuit mission. A number of priests, however, went underground to minister to the Christian community. Once welcome in Japan, missionaries were officially expelled from the country by the 1620s. The film does not sugarcoat the brutal nature of this chapter of Jesuit history. Although the film is based on a fictional novel by the Japanese author Shusaku Endo, many of the events and people depicted in “Silence” are real. ![]() Decades in the making, Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” tells the story of Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan. DecemThirty years after Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons portrayed Jesuits in the Academy Award-winning movie “The Mission,” the Society of Jesus figures prominently in a new film opening in theaters on Dec. ![]()
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