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Urakami Church

・After the policy to ban Christianity and crack down on Christians were abolished in 1873, Urakami believers with their new-found freedom planned to build a church.
・Due to lack of funds, the construction of Urakami Church designed by Father Freno started in 1895, after more than 20 years, and a consecration ceremony was held in 1914 with the construction of the church left incomplete.
・In 1925, a Romanesque cathedral made of bricks, said to be the largest of its kind in East Asia, was constructed with French-made Angelus bells in its twin towers. Only 20 years after its completion, however, the cathedral was destroyed by the atomic bomb, and the Angelus bells and the twin bell towers collapsed.
・The Urakami Cathedral you see today was reconstructed with reinforced concrete in 1959. In 1980, the cathedral was remodeled with brick tiles, restoring the beautiful image of the former Urakami Cathedral.

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Kuzure

［Kuzure］ Kuzure is the destruction of the faith-based organization of Kirishitans (Christians) due to strict control or informing during the forbidden period. The term refers to large-scale arrests of Kirishitans in an area, including the Omura county kuruze, the first to fourth Urakami kuruze, and the Goto kuruze.

Consecration of a church

［Consecration of a church］ Consecration of a church refers to the ceremony of receiving God's blessing as an official church after completing a new church building.

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.

Oppression

［Oppression］ Repression is the suppression of an activity by a ruler through power. In the history of Christianity, repression refers to religious persecution using various means to compel people to quit or abandon their faith.

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