page_title: Kakure Kirishitan
hierarchical_section_title: Kakure Kirishitan
caption_attribution_description: English: The_Virgin_Mary_disguised_as_Kannon (Japan). Photographed by me at the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 2008.
context_page_description: Kakure Kirishitan is a modern term for a member of the Catholic Church that went underground at the start of the Edo period in the early 17th century.
context_section_description: Kakure Kirishitan (Japanese: 隠れキリシタン, lit. '"hidden Christian"') is a modern term for a member of the Catholic Church that went underground at the start of the Edo period in the early 17th century.
caption: The Virgin Mary disguised as Kannon, Kirishitan cult, 17th-century Japan. Salle des Martyrs, Paris Foreign Missions Society.
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