Christovao Ferreira

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Christovao Ferreira was a Portuguese Catholic priest who served as a missionary in Japan during the the Tokugawa period. When threatened with torture, he agreed to apostasy and continued to live in Japan. Later becoming a Zen priest, he published a pamphlet attacking Christianity and endorsing the official Neo-Confucian views of the Japanese elite.

[edit] Depictions in Literature

Ferreira appears as the mentor of the missionary Rodrigues in Shusaku Endo's novel Silence.

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