Urakami
Urakami ( Japanese 浦 上 ) was a place in the north of Nagasaki , named after the river of the same name . It was the exact zero point of the atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 . The Urakami Cathedral was once the largest cathedral in East Asia.
The 15 Christians who met the French Catholic priest Bernard Petitjean in 1865 in the newly built church of neuura lived in Urakami and who had until then had to practice their faith underground. This event marks the revival of Christianity in Japan . This contrasted with the atomic bombing, which killed 8,500 of the 12,000 Christians in Japan's largest Christian community.
Paul Takashi Nagai was nicknamed "the Saint of Urakami" from the countless atomic bomb victims whom he helped.
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- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Johannes Laures: The Church Language Problem in the New Church Mission
- ↑ Paul Ham: Hiroshima Nagasaki . Transworld, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4481-2627-9 , pp. 367 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed August 14, 2015]).
- ↑ http://www.123exp-biographies.com/t/00034409486/
