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

  25 years after the martyrdom of the 26 Saints, the blood of Christians was shed once again at Nishizaka in Nagasaki.     55 Christians were martyred who were arrested at Suzuta Prison in Omura and Kurusu Pris …

Genna great Martyrdom in 1622…の続きを読む

  When Matsukura Shigemasa became the new federal lord of Shimabara in 1616, many people were Christians. Initially, he acquiesced in Christianity, because he needed people’s cooperation to build Shimabara Castle. H …

Unzen jigoku Martyrdom…の続きを読む