The original plan was to take a boat through the Genkai Sea to Karatsu.   However, the waves in the Genkai Sea were rough, so they changed the  plan to head Hakata through Hakata Bay. They stayed in Hakata and too …

26 Saints Pilgrimage route on January 31…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

  There were 24 martyrs when they started Kyoto, but two more martyrs were added in Shimonoseki, then became 26 martyrs in total.   The route of this day was from Karato in Shimonoseki to Kokura in Kitakyushu. …

26 Saints Pilgrimage route on January 27…の続きを読む