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Mission Photograph Album - Japan OP #1
Mission Photograph Album - Japan - O.P. #01 Page 0148
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64228 Christians on the Bamboo Cross, others being beheaded. One of the methods of extermination of Christians in 17th Century as practiced at Nagasaki, Kyusha, Japan. The heads which had been cut off were usually taken to the city, placed on poles erected in the heart of the city, as warnings to those living that a like fate awaited those who believed in the God of the hated foreigners. JanOP1-148:2 Tomb of one of the Catholic priests placed in prison 200 years ago, and after long confinement passed away. This was but one of the methods of extermination. (Note the peculiar hat at top of the stone.) JanOP1-148:3 A sign erected by the Nagasaki Historical Society, Japan, which states that at this place 250 years ago, 3,300 Christians were buried. These Christians were killed in the battle at Hara Castle. The heads were served from the bodies and exposed on bamboo poles erected in the city. The bodies of the 10,000 killed were buried in three places, nemely, Shimabara, Amakusa, and here in Nagasaki.
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