organtino

Updated: July 14, 2026

He not only accorded a friendly audience to Father Organtino, as representative of the fathers, but also he went in person to assign to the Company a site for a church and a residence in Osaka. Nor did he confine himself to licensing the missionaries to preach throughout all Japan: he exempted not only churches from the billeting of soldiers but also the priests themselves from local burdens.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era