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Site of the Odaira Workshop

・In 1879, Father de Rotz came to the Sotome area to conduct missionary work, and he devotedly engaged in various welfare and philanthropic activities to improve the welfare and lives of local residents.
・Promoting agriculture was one such effort by Father de Rotz. In 1884, he started to cultivate wasteland in Shitsu Hendake to create farms.
・As part of efforts to develop wasteland, the Odaira Workshop was established. It is thought that the workshop was constructed in around 1901, when the cultivation was completed.
・This workshop is a one-story solid stone building with part of the front made of brick. The so-called “de Rotz wall” technique was used for the construction of the workshop. A clasp still survives today, which is said to have been used to yoke up the favorite horse of Father de Rotz.

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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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