Category: Japan

Seibo no Kishi (Knights of the Holy Mother) is the name given to the friary of the Franciscan Friars of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (‘Conventual Friars’ for short). Founded by Fr. Kolbe on May 16th, 1931, the monastery is located on another Nagasaki hillside- in an area called ‘Hongochi’. A small word of…

Flying into Nagasaki means you really get to see how the city is surrounded by curtains of mountains on all sides but it’s about 30-40 minutes into the city itself by public transport. The bullet train option drops you right outside Nagasaki station. As my start point was Tokyo and I had limited time, I…

The introduction of Christianity into Japan began when St. Francis Xavier landed as a missionary in Kagoshima, Japan (on the island of Kyushu). By the end of that century, an estimated 300,000 Japanese had been baptized into the faith. That in itself is remarkable but that Christianity survived in Japan for 250 years after despite…