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Magome Church

・It is said that the history of Christianity on Iojima Island started in the Edo Period, when Christians who managed to survive amid the ban on Christianity came to the island from various areas, including Amakusa, by sea.
・After the discovery of Hidden Christians in 1865, the Japanese government removed the bulletin board banning Christianity in 1873, and Magome Church was constructed.
・In 1890, Father Marmand erected a white plaster Gothic church. Later, the church collapsed due to lightning and typhoons. In 1931, the church was reconstructed with a local carpenter serving as the master builder.

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Plaster

［Plaster］ Stucco is a building material used for bonding tiles and stones, filling in joints, and painting over walls, and is applied to the surfaces of the Oura Cathedral and Shitsu Church.

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.

Joseph Ferdinand Marmand

［Joseph Ferdinand Marmand］ Joseph Ferdinand Marmand was a missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He came to Japan in 1876. After missionary works in Amami and Ryukyu, he was assigned to Shimogoto as parish priest in 1880. After serving in Iojima and Amami, in 1897 he was sent to Kuroshima where he was instrumental in constructing the Kuroshima Church.

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