26 Saints Pilgrimage route in Dairi
The Twenty-six Christians, including six foreign missionaries and three young boys, were arrested
in Kyoto and Osaka on the order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the National ruler, for preaching Christianity.
They were marched 800 km through the snow to Nagasaki and crucified in front of large crowd on
Nishizaka hill on Feb. 5, 1597.
The marched route, as the Pilgrimage route to Nagasaki were from Kyoto, Osaka, Himeji,
Hiroshima, Shimonoseki, Dairi, Kokura, Fukuoka, Saga, and Tokitsu to Nagasaki.
Today, we wish to show the Pilgrimage route in Dairi.
(Took a ship from Shimonoseki and landed at Dairi)
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Landed point |
Dairi Pilgrimage route |
Dairi Pilgrimage route |
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Dairi Pilgrimage route |
Dairi Pilgrimage route |
Nagasaki |
Jan. 09, 2021