" Petitjean discovered that these people were from the nearby village of Urakami and were Kakure Kirishitans, descendants of early Japanese Christians who went into hiding after the Shimabara Rebellion in the 1630s.
El padre Petitjean descubrió que estas personas eran de la cercana aldea de Urakami y eran Kakure Kirishitans (cristianos ocultos), descendientes de los primeros japoneses cristianos que permanecieron ocultos posteriormente a la rebelión de Shimabara en 1638.