AngusLynch09 t1_j58cs7b wrote on January 21, 2023 at 2:51 AM Reply to comment by Freak_Out_Bazaar 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 Why would Japan have wanted to be a "stronghold for Catholicism" though? Permalink Parent 1
AngusLynch09 t1_j58cs7b wrote
Reply to comment by Freak_Out_Bazaar 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
Why would Japan have wanted to be a "stronghold for Catholicism" though?