By TOMOKO ADACHI/ Staff Writer
June 4, 2022 at 07:00 JST
A landowner impressed by sculptor Eiji Oyamatsu donated an oval-shaped tract of land in Minami-Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, for the site of building to house the Virgin Mary statue. (Provided by the Citizens’ Association for the Minami-Shimabara World Heritage)
FUJISAWA, Kanagawa Prefecture--A sculptor has almost completed a nearly 10-meter-tall wooden statue of Virgin Mary that he started carving 40 years ago to pray for the souls of thousands of people killed in Kyushu in the 17th century. [Read More]
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