Pope meets 4 Japan students reenacting 440-yr-old mission to Europe

Pope Francis gave an audience Wednesday to a delegation of four Japanese junior high school students from Nagasaki Prefecture, in a reenactment of a historical mission to Europe in the 16th century.The four students from Minamishimabara attended the event wearing "kamishimo," or ceremonial garb traditionally worn by samurai. They were simulating the "Tensho mission" involving the first Japanese envoys sent to meet the pope in Rome.Four Japanese boys were part of the group dispatched in 1582 by Christian warlords to seek support in spreading Christianity in Japan. They returned in 1590.The p…READ FULL ARTICLE