TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues en.wikipedia.org Submitted by jeanleonino t3_10gubv2 on January 20, 2023 at 11:13 AM in todayilearned 35 comments 336
jeanleonino OP t1_j54ys2m wrote on January 20, 2023 at 12:58 PM Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues by jeanleonino Yes, that's what I think Permalink Parent 6
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