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Popular Culture

What about Samurai X, the anime? The Shimabara arc of the series features a person called 'shojo amakusa' who claims to be son of god and such.. a similiar parallel is drawn - not even the name has been changed much.

He appears with his real name in the Samurai Shodown games as well as in Square's Live a Live RPG. Interestingly he is a villain and a magician in both... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.157.76.57 (talk) 17:50, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a question why is the Amakusa statue depicting how he looks like look like a old man? I thought he was young when he died. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sage99 (talk • contribs) 15:08, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

St Francis Xavier's purported prophecy

St Francis Xavier never prophesied anything like the coming of an Amakusa Shiro. The writer is attributing to Xavier a bogus prophecy cooked up by the plotters who set Amakusa Shiro up as the figurehead-leader of the rebellion. The so-called prophecy was purportedly left behind by a fictional missionary in Amakusa perhaps two generations before the birth of Shiro; it was written by the schemers and circulated around Amakusa and Shimabara as "proof" of Shiro's divine ordination to the leadership of a supposedly divinely-ordained rebellion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.101.32.86 (talk) 02:09, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I concur with the above statement about the prophecy of Francis Xavier regarding Shiro was for. I checked through all available resources in English and German on the saint's history, but was unable to come up with any kind of support for this statement. The main scholar of the 20th century on Xavier was the German Jesuit, Georg Schurhammer. I checked the English version of his four volume biography of Xavier, which has an extensive index. Under Prophecies/Miracles, there was no entry for the alleged prediction. A check of the indexes of other works on Xavier was also negative. I suggest removing this statement from the article.--Kismetmagic (talk) 17:21, 13 May 2011 (UTC)Kismetmagic[reply]

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The bit about revenge in 100 years seems to be an English-internet rumor

For future reference:

I was curious about User:46.99.1.137's repeated attempts to add an unsourced factoid about returning in 100 years to wreak revenge, so I looked for something to that effect on Japanese google and found nothing close to the often-repeated quote on the English-speaking side of things. This appears to be urban legend unique to the English-language side of things.

96.41.225.223 (talk) 18:16, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 16:06, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Names

The article lists his names from various contexts: Shirō, Tokisada, Geronimo, Francisco & then refers to him as Shirō throughout. The impression that I get is that he had the public name Shirō and several probably-private, religious names. The first book in the bibliography mostly calls him Jerome. I am confused by the article listing the book and then not mentioning the name Jerome. Should it?

Nyuuposting (talk) 23:59, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]