He came to be trampled on

The year is 1637. You are a priest, who has travelled to Japan in secret, to learn whether your former teacher has in-fact abandoned Christianity, as is rumoured. You travel from island to island, encouraging tiny groups of Christian believers, who are hiding for their lives. You are eventually captured by the Inquisitor, who tortures other believers in front of you in an attempt to make you renounce Christianity.

This is the setup for Martin Scorsese's film Silence, based on Shūsaku Endō's n...