Comments by "" (@MayaTheDecemberGirl) on "92 Year-Old Shares His Life In Japan Since 1960" video.

  1. About missionaries in Japan, the most well known Christian missionary from my country that came to Japan was saint Maximilian Kolbe. He came to Japan, to Nagasaki in 1930 and spent there six years. He learned Japanese. He founded in Nagasaki a Fransiscian monastery (called Mugenzai no Sono), that's still existing. To build the monastery he chose a place on the outskirts of Nagasaki, on the slopes of a mountain Hikosan (although it was said then not to be the best place for that). But thanks to this the monastery survived the atom bomb attack. And the Franciscians, after the atom bomb attack, were helping the victims. Maximilian Kolbe is known worldwide (among Catholics, but not only) also because of his heroic death in 1941 in the German death camp of Auschwitz when he volunteered to die in place of another prisoner (who had wife and children). And another Polish missionary known in Japan was friar Zeno Żebrowski, who also came to Japan in 1930 and when the war ended he was organizing orphanages and housing for homeless people in Japan, the victims of the war. He died in Tokyo in 1982. In his work he cooperated for instance with Satiko Kitahara, a Japanese woman, whose beatification process has been opened by the Pope and is still ongoing.
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  2. In my country (Europe) also people don't wear shoes in the house. Even the guests that visit our houses usually change their shoes to slippers. After all, without this habit it would be all the time dirty inside.
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  3.  @rjlecuona  Best wishes from Poland. I can add that there was a good Polish movie about saint Maximilian Kolbe, titled "Two crowns" (2017, director: Michał Kondrat), probably it can be found also with subtitles in other languages. And do You know another saint from Poland, one of the most important saints of current times - saint sister Faustina Kowalska? She was a mystic, called "Apostle of Divine Mercy". And known among Catholics all over the world is her diary "Divine Mercy in my soul", the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy and the famous image with the words "Jesus, I trust in You". I live not very far from Cracow, where there's the Basilica of Divine Mercy, where she spent her last years and is buried.
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