(ENI) — A Roman Catholic church and school that were bombed in Nagasaki in 1945 have staged a new Japanese classical Noh drama called The Holy Mother of Nagasaki.
The Noh drama featured Mary incarnated as a female believer and bomb survivor who recounts how she helped and comforted those hurt by the atomic bombing on August 9, 1945 of what was one of Japan's most Christian cities.
It was staged in November to mark the 60th anniversary of a memorial mass for those killed by the atomic bombing, held in the suburb of Urakami near the site of the church that was the biggest Christian place of worship in Japan and which was reduced to rubble. An estimated 10,000 Catholics from the city, once visited by St. Francis Xavier, died in the bombing.
