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A cave in Shinkamigoto where believers hid during the ban on Christianity.
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A cave in Kamigoto, Nagasaki Prefecture, 10 minutes by boat from Wakamatsu Port. During the Goto Kuzure of the 1st year of Meiji (1868), 3 families, 12 people, hid here to escape persecution. It is cross-shaped, 50 m deep, 5 m high and 5 m wide, and at the entrance stand a 4 m cross and a statue of Christ. Every November, about 100 people, mainly believers of Doinoura Church, hold a mass here.
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