Father John Baptist Sidotti - Italian missionary priest

Rebroadcast of the long running radio program, "The Ave Maria Hour", a presentation of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement. www.atonementfriars.org

Fr. John Baptist Sidotti – Italian missionary priest sent to Japan in 1708 where he was captured and imprisoned.  After performing a baptism he was placed in a subterranean cell where he later died.