donated a piece of land and a house to the Jesuit mission from his own personal property. The house was used as a Jesuit residence and Torres established a Christian cemetery, as well as a hospital on the donated land. This cemetery was particularly important for the mission, since Buddhist temples refused to bury Japanese Christian converts. The Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis recorded many incidents that demonstrate the missionary zeal and self-sacrificing nature of Torres. Torres never failed to offer mass, even if he was so gravely ill that he was unable to stand and had to lean against the altar. He greeted all visitors warmly, with "tears of love from his eyes". According to Frois, his "modesty and religious maturity suited the nature of the Japanese so much that he won profound love and respect from them". Torres was so adored by Japanese Christian converts that many of them kept locks of his hair or pieces of his old clothing as treasures. Torrès's primary concern was the education of the Christian community. He encouraged his congregation to become familiar with the Bible and promoted this by organizing pageants to educate the new converts. He was also especially concerned with the education of Christian children. He held daily catechism classes for forty to fifty children who were taught to recite prayers in Latin. Torres also organized Japanese classes for them, appointing a Japanese lay brother to teach them to read and write in their native language. See also Francis Xavier Sengoku period Exploration of Asia Society of Jesus References Bibliography External links 1510 births 1570 deaths People from Valencia History of Catholicism in Asia 16th-century Spanish Jesuits Spanish Roman Catholic missionaries Roman Catholic missionaries in Japan Jesuit missionaries Spanish expatriates in Japan