Catholic Motohara Church

A church where tourists rarely go

Original Text

The church is located in the Urakami district, but it takes about 30 minutes to walk from Urakami Catholic Church. There is a parking lot so it will be convenient to access by car. In addition to the statues of Lourdes and Christ on the premises, there is also a statue of Pedro Babtista, one of the 26 saints of Japan, in front of the cathedral. The back mountain of the cathedral is called "Mt. Ipponki" or "Mt. of St. Mary", and it seems that it is a place where believers 々 secretly gathered and prayed during the forbidden period. Follow the relief of Christ's path and the white cross And mass ...

We arrived from Mount Cross.

Original Text

It was unexpectedly a new church, so I was surprised. When I hear Ipponkiyama, I think of "Urakami No. 4 collapse". I couldn't enter the hall, but I heard that there was a miserable history in the mountain village of Nagasaki overlooking from here. However, it was a pity that I saw Lourdes without time to the top of the mountain. Nagasaki City has a history of many "hiding", and it still takes time to learn.

Uragami No.4 collapsed, and this was also a place to protect the faith of the hidden Christians.

Original Text

This place is called "Mt. Maria", a mountain of Ipponki where Christians hid and protected their faith in the past. I was able to arrive in 45 minutes by walking from the Bishop's Church in Urakami, but the last slope was steep, and in addition, there were many big bees flying around, probably because there was a beehive on the way, and I was afraid. Look at the destination I pointed. I didn't want to walk to visit the church in the Goto Islands at all, but I sweated too steeply. Hidden Christian ...