
Histoire du catholicisme au Japon
Collection Petits Cerf Histoire
384 pages - avril 2011
27,50€
Au XVIIe siècle, à la suite de saint François Xavier, les chrétiens japonais, sous le joug d'une dictature féodale sanglante, pourchassés et menacés de mort, entrèrent en clandestinité, s'organisèrent et gardèrent intacte leur foi chrétienne pendant deux cent cinquante ans, sans le secours d'aucun prêtre. Ils attendaient dans la clandestinité, de génération en génération, et dans la prière, que la liberté religieuse, ce droit inaliénable de tout être humain, leur soit rendue. Quand les missionnaires purent retourner au Japon, au XIXe siècle, une délégation de ces chrétiens cachés vint, en grand secret, les rencontrer et se faire reconnaître. Les historiens japonais nous disent qu'ils étaient près de 50 000, dispersés dans tout le pays. C'est avec eux que l'Église du Japon a pu renaître. Une page étonnante de l'histoire de l'Église écrite par des Japonais chrétiens.
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In the 17th century, after Saint Francis Xavier, Japanese Christians lived under the yoke of a bloody feudal dictatorship, hunted and threatened with death. They became clandestine, organised themselves and kept their Christian faith intact for two hundred and fifty years, without the help of a priest. In secret and in prayer, they waited from generation to generation to be permitted freedom of worship, that inalienable right of every human being. When missionaries were able to return to Japan in the 19th century, a delegation of these underground Christians came in great secret to meet them and be acknowledged. Japanese historians tell us that there were roughly 50,000 Christians dispersed throughout the country. Through them, the Church in Japan was reborn. An astonishing page of the history of the Church, written by Japanese Christians.
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In the 17th century, after Saint Francis Xavier, Japanese Christians lived under the yoke of a bloody feudal dictatorship, hunted and threatened with death. They became clandestine, organised themselves and kept their Christian faith intact for two hundred and fifty years, without the help of a priest. In secret and in prayer, they waited from generation to generation to be permitted freedom of worship, that inalienable right of every human being. When missionaries were able to return to Japan in the 19th century, a delegation of these underground Christians came in great secret to meet them and be acknowledged. Japanese historians tell us that there were roughly 50,000 Christians dispersed throughout the country. Through them, the Church in Japan was reborn. An astonishing page of the history of the Church, written by Japanese Christians.
- Dimensions : 125x195x25
- ISBN : 9782204093804
- Poids : 420 grammes
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