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In Sotome, for instance, people prayed to a statue of what they called Maria Kannon, a genderless Bodhisattva of mercy, as a substitute for Mary. In Ibaragi, where about 18,000 residents embraced ...

On the rural islands of Nagasaki a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct ... In Sotome, for instance, people prayed to a statue of what they called Maria ...

In Sotome, for instance, people prayed to a statue of what they called Maria Kannon, ... There were an estimated 30,000 in Nagasaki, including about 10,000 in Ikitsuki, ...

In Ibaragi, where about 18,000 residents embraced Christianity in the 1580s, a lacquer bowl with a cross painted on it, a statue of the crucified Christ and an ivory statue of Mary were found ...