ASIA/JAPAN – Nagasaki, the city symbol of Japanese Catholicism

ASIA/JAPAN – Nagasaki, the city symbol of Japanese Catholicism

Tokyo (Fides News Agency) – Today, August 9, is the 78th wedding anniversary of the atomic battle of Nagasaki, the 2nd (and also ideally, last) in background, which adhered to that of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Nagasaki at the time was the crucial facility for Japan’s Catholic neighborhood – whose background go back to the 16th century and also is packed with oppression, however additionally comprised of an area that for a century maintained their belief in silence, covertly baptizing their kids, also if they had no accessibility to the Eucharist on account of an absence of clergymans.
.It was specifically in Nagasaki that, in 1597, 26 Catholics were martyred, and also once again in this city, one more 56 faithful were eliminated in 1622.
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The nuke took off at an elevation of 500 meters, …