おらしょ こころ旅

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Nagasaki

The sardine net workshop of Former Shitsu Aid Centre (Father de Rotz Memorial Hall)

  • In 1885, this building was constructed opposite the Former Shitsu Aid centre. It is a wooden-framed, one-storey building made of brick.
  • It was initially built as a factory for making fishing nets for catching sardines (which was a popular job at the time). Later, the factory stopped operating and was instead used as a childcare facility. In 1968 it opened as the Father de Rotz Memorial Hall, having been enlarged and rebuilt.
  • In 1999, special repair work began with the intention of preserving this culturally significant building (which had deteriorated). This work took three years to complete. The building was restored to look like it had done between the middle of the Meiji era and the beginning of Showa era.

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Discovery of Hidden Christians

[Discovery of Hidden Christians] The Discovery of Hidden Christians is an event in which several Senpuku Kirishitans (hidden Christians) in Urakami confessed their faith to a priest for the first time in about 250 years, in 1865, even when the ban on Christianity had not yet been lifted. This historical event happened at the Oura Cathedral built in the foreign settlement of Nagasaki.

Marc Marie de Rotz

[Marc Marie de Rotz] Marc Marie de Rotz, a missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, landed at Nagasaki as a diocesan bishop in 1868. After printing doctrinal books using lithography at Oura Cathedral, he was assigned as the parish priest of the Sotome area in 1879 and engaged in various welfare activities, including establishing an aid center. He also had a profound knowledge of architecture and was involved in the construction of Shitsu Church and Ono Church.

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