confession

When Sakamoto had transferred based in Nagasaki.
Christian church was built in Nagasaki Oura.
At that time, Christian faith of Japanese was forbidden yet.
Japanese guards stood around the church for monitor the Japanese.
Construction of the church therefore was intended for western people to stay in Nagasaki.

One night，when Father Petitjean of French was praying，few Japanese people came into the church.
They were seems farmers of nearby.

"Gawkers of church?"
Father first thought so.

　
They were farmers of Nagasaki Urakami.　
A woman of one person of them asked to Father Petitjean.
”Where is Mary?”
”We are people who have the same faith with you.”
They revealed the faith of their own for the first time in 250 years.
　
Christians during this 250 years in Japan.
The same as the Witch of the Middle Ages in Western.
I do think so.
Confession of Christian faith was directly linked to the death.　
Several times in the past，Christian faith had been discovered by Tokugawa and there were oppressions.　
In that situation，they had kept the faith in 250 years by only their own
Of course the situation had not changed yet.　
　
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Discovery methods of the Christian believer was simple.
"Stepped by the foot to the picture of Jesus and Mary."
This called "Efumi".
　
This was performed on a regular basis.
Urakami area was also that it was the Jesuits territory before the era of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Maybe there are Christians in Urakami that was the unspoken agreement.
　
”Please stepping on.
Seeming is important.
Your inmost faith is irrelevant.　
Because the problem does not occur by it.”
Officials of Efumi might had been thinking like that always.
　
However，after this they no longer hidden their faith.