Hannah Riddell, a female missionary of the Church of England, one of the persons who left behind a great achievement in the history of the Hansen's disease in Japan, was greatly shocked to see a crowd of patients at the temple and came to devote her life to give aid to patients suffering from Hansen's disease. |
日本のハンセン病の歴史において大きな足跡を残した一人、イギリス国教会の婦人伝道師だったハンナ・リデルはこの寺で見た患者達の群を見て甚大なショックを受け、その生涯を彼らの救済に傾けた。 |