Takashi Nagai: Prophet of Nagasaki

Every year, on August 6, throngs of people converge on Hiroshima and hold political demonstrations and rallies, many of them characterised by noisy anti-West slogans. Three days later, another group of people gather in Nagasaki to pray for reconciliation and peace. Many Japanese say, "Hiroshima is anger, Nagasaki is prayer." This is the legacy of a once proud atheist who, through faith and trust, embodied the poverty of spirit and inner strength of Jesus Christ, the unblemished Lamb of God.
-The Word Among Us

I never knew that.. Nagasaki was "the home of the Japanese martyrs;... the home of the largest Catholic cathedral in Asia, the home of Japan's largest and most vibrant Catholic community."

Jean