Construction of the original Urakami Cathedral, a brick Romanesque building, began in 1895, after a long-standing ban on Christianity was lifted. When completed in 1914, it was the largest Catholic church in East …

Urakami Cathedral, in Nagasaki…の続きを読む

  Nakae no Shima is a Christian Pilgrimage site and is the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hidden Chriatian Sites in the Nagasaki Region. Located two kilometers off the coast of Hirado Island, Nakae no Shima is a smal …

Nakae no Shima / Christian Pilgrimage si…の続きを読む

  The Cathedral is one of the significant Christian Pilgrimage site in Japan.  Established 1865, this church is officially known as “Oura Cathedral, the Church of 26 Martyrs.” It was built by the French priest Berna …

Oura Cathedral, in Nagasaki…の続きを読む

  Christian missionary activities in Japan began after Francis Xavier came to Hirado in 1550. The Jesuit missionaries who accompanied Francis Xavier carried out missionary activities in Hirado, Omura, Nagasaki, Goto …

Christian missionary work in Nagasaki in…の続きを読む

  Nagasaki Port was opened in 1570 by Sumitada Omura, who was the first feudal lord in Japan to be baptized as a Christian. At that time, there was a Christian family who immigrated with Figueiredo. Many of them wer …

Opening the port created Christian town …の続きを読む

  In 1582, four youth boarded a ship bound for Europe at Nagasaki Port. They were dispatched as representatives of Japanese Christian federal lords, and departed with Alessandro Valignano who was Jesuit missionary w …

Tensho youth mission to Europe in 1582…の続きを読む

  In 1596, the Spanish ship San Felipe, heading from the Philippines to Mexico, washed ashore on the Tosa-Urato coast due to a typhoon. Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi confiscated the ship’s vast cargo. At that time, the …

Causes of the Martyrdom of 26 Saints…の続きを読む

  26 Christians arrested in Kyoto who were consisted of 20 Japanese, 4 Spaniards, 1 Mexican, and 1 Portuguese. They were forced to walk barefoot to Nagasaki for about a month. On February 5, 1597, all 26 Christians …

26 Saints were the first martyrs in Japa…の続きを読む

  Todos os Santos Church, the first church in Nagasaki, was built in 1569. Federal lord Omura and the Jesuits made an agreement to make Nagasaki a port for trade with Nanban. (Portugal and Spain) in 1570. Nagasaki P …

Nagasaki was a small Rome in 1569…の続きを読む

  The number of Christians in Japan continued to increase, and reaching 300,000 in 1614. Fearing the ever-increasing number of Christian rebellions, Tokugawa Shogunate finally issued a ban on Christianity in Nagasak …

Ban on Christianity in 1612…の続きを読む