{"id":10163,"date":"2019-02-11T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/?p=10163"},"modified":"2021-04-07T16:39:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T08:39:32","slug":"japan-travel-oe-church-the-oldest-catholic-church-in-amakusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2019\/02\/11\/japan-travel-oe-church-the-oldest-catholic-church-in-amakusa\/","title":{"rendered":"JAPAN TRAVEL: Oe Church, the Oldest Catholic Church in Amakusa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Amakusa region in Kumamoto Prefecture is a historic Christian site in Japan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10165\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-amakusa-japan-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Oe Church in Amakusa<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Christianity was introduced to the country in 1542, however, it was met with rejection from Japanese feudal lord who eventually banned the said religion across Japan. Many of those Christians were persecuted, but there were some who found a safe place to practice their faith in secrecy. One of these places is Amakusa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10166\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-amakusa-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-amakusa.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-amakusa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-amakusa-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Inside Oe Church<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">One of the churches built after the Christianity ban has been lifted is <strong>Oe Church.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The present structure of the church which features a Romanesque-style was built by Fr. Garnier, a French missionary and some local parishioners in 1933.\u00a0It\u2019s built on top of the hill which offers a stunning landscape view.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10168\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-view-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-view.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-view-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-view-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>The view from Oe Church<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This place of solemnity is a symbol of the Christian\u2019s unwavering faith. Various statues surround the Oe Church such as the Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto and the grave of Fr. Garnier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10167\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-fr-garnier-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-fr-garnier.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-fr-garnier-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/oe-church-fr-garnier-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The holy place holds mass every Sunday morning. Tourists may visit the\u00a0church free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Information<\/strong><br \/>\nAddress: 1782 Oe, Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture<br \/>\nOperating Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Closed on Mondays<br \/>\nAdmission: free<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This first appeared on Philippine Primer magazine&#8217;s February 2019 issue.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the churches built after the Christianity ban has been lifted is Oe Church. The present structure of the church which features a Romanesque-style was built by Fr. Garnier, a French missionary and some local parishioners in 1933. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[562,565,57,1856,80,1917],"tags":[1688,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862],"class_list":["post-10163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-japan-international","category-historical","category-kumamoto-prefecture","category-churches","category-kumamoto-spot-2019","tag-churches-in-japan","tag-oe-church","tag-oe-tenshudo-church","tag-amakusa-churckes","tag-christianity","tag-amakusa","tag-kumamoto-prefecture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14871,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163\/revisions\/14871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}