The Pro-Life/Tecla Hashimoto Rosary
I was introduced to the "Pro-Life Rosary" by a "nun" at "World Youth Day" in Toronto in 2002 while I was still a formal member of the modern "church." Despite its dubious origins, the Pro-Life Rosary may be a source of grace, particularly as it applies to Tecla and the Martyrs of Kyoto.
Since the modern "church" is so loathe to do anything by way of promoting Tecla and her very special martyrdom, I have taken it upon myself to compose a litany in her honor. Litanies have a long and venerable tradition in the Catholic Church, and there is no one who doesn't already have one more desrving of one in her honor than Tecla Hashimoto.
May we not adopt Tecla as a patroness of the pro-life movement, along with the Virgin of Guadalupe? Both are pregnant women "clothed with the sun" (the sun being a great ball of fire, like that which surrounds Tecla), and both reflect the "Woman" of Apocalypse 12.
This title of Mary is literally translated "The Holy Mother of Miyako," Miyako being the old name for "Kyoto". Read the remarkable story of this beautiful black statue of the Virgin Mother with Child Jesus playfully on her lap which lies only three miles from the site of Tecla's martyrdom.
The Little Crown of the Japanese Martyrs
A chaplet established by Pope Pius IX in 1860 in preparation for his canonization of the 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki on June 8, 1862, but which, of course, can be applied to the 52 Martyrs of Kyoto, and/or all the martyrs of Japan, as well.