Xavier's Japan & the north
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A mountain chapel in a castle town, where exiled Urakami Christians suffered for their faith.
Between 1868 and 1873 Christians from Urakami were exiled to Tsuwano, where they were imprisoned and tortured and dozens died. The Chapel of St. Mary at Otome Pass, dedicated in 1951, is a memorial to the 37 Christians persecuted here.
