He came to Japan in October 1868 (the first year of the Meiji era), and while conducting missionary activities in Kobe, Kyoto, Yamaguchi, Hagi, Nara, etc., he devoted himself to researching Christian historical sites and building monuments to commemorate martyrs.

Aimé Villion was born September 2, 1843, in Genay, a village near Rhône in southern France.

After graduating from St. John Elementary School in Lyon, he studied at the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, and was ordained a priest on May 26, 1866.

[1] On June 14, 1866, he departed from the port of Marseille as an overseas missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, and traveled to Hong Kong in October 1868, arriving in Nagasaki.

Since then, more than 3,000 believers who had been persecuted and oppressed by the Meiji government were killed in Nagoya Kanazawa, Tsuwano.