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After Japanese officials capture Rodrigues in the forest, he finds that rather than fear, he feels a strange tranquility about the whole thing; the Japanese officials do not seem furious or evil, but rather gently try to convince the captured Christians to apostatize. Once again, Rodrigues’s expectations of suffering for Christ and the type of people who would inflict such religious persecution are unmet. While one might expect such capture to be a fearful or exciting event and one’s persecutors to be ferocious, Rodrigues’s captors are regular people who speak gently. The ordinary, almost placid nature of Rodrigues’s captors suggests…