With the Ban on Christianity imposed, many Christians living in Nagasaki which had established ties to the Catholic Church had to keep their religious faith behind closed doors as crypto-Christians to transmit it to the next generation. |
もともと長崎はカトリック教会とゆかりがあり、信徒たちが多く暮らしていたが、禁教令をうけた信徒たちは隠れキリシタンとしてひそかに信仰を守り、次代へ受け継いでいくことになった。 |