Giuseppe Chiara Tombstone

Shen Xuan

Original Text

The tombstone of Father Chiara, the main character of silence, is located on the premises of the Salesio Academy. It is said that he came to Japan to save missionaries in the Edo period and abandoned his faith due to severe torture, but I was deeply thoughtful that he was a person who lived a spectacular life.

the stone monument of father chiara

Original Text

There is a stone monument of Father Kiara on the site of the Salesio Theological Seminary in Chofu. After listening to the story of the priest, I prayed here. I came here after seeing the silence, so I was driven by the thought of color 々.

Father Giuseppe Chiara, who became the model of the hero of "Silence"

Original Text

Surprisingly, there is something about "silence". The tombstone of Father Kiara is located on the premises of the Salesio Theological Seminary in Chofu. The tombstone of Father Giuseppe Chiara, who was the model of the main character of Shusaku Endo's "Silence", is placed. In 1943 during World War II, Father Crodoveo Tasinali of the Salesio Society, a Christian researcher, found it at the Zashigaya Cemetery, and Father Tasinali was under the gravestone for two months. I went to pray every Sunday and continued to pray with flowers ...