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| | Francis Britto's Brittopia: Laures, "Xavier in Yamaguchi" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Moreover, Ouchi assigned a former monastery as the residence of Xavier and his companions and, a few months later, donated a piece of land for the construction of a church and a convent. |
 | | After Xavier left the city, rebels murdered the lord, Ouchi Yoshitaka and his son.* The missionaries were then in great danger of being massacred by the angry people, who blamed them and their teaching for the misfortune of civil war that befell the city. |
 | | In 1533 he submitted a memorial to the Emperor emphasizing the services rendered by the Ouchi family and their unswerving loyalty to the throne, declaring his desire to punish the rebel Suwe Harukata, who had murdered his lord, and beseeching that a commission might be granted to him. |
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