Dozaki also has a small section of garden with naturally formed rocks. These rocks were brought from Sotome and other places Christians were fleeing from.

Mr. Izumi explains how the rock looks like Mary and that the volcanic rock cannot be found naturally on the Goto Islands.

This rock also has an image of Christ and Mary making it a sacred stone for the people who brought it to the Islands.

This stone does not have the image of Christ but just the image of Mary.

This stone just looks normal in among the others but when Mr. Izumi turns it over there is a faint cross on the back. When he replaces the stone he turns it back over hidding the cross.








The interior of Dozaki has a small museum portion besides having a normal church.



We then went to Mizunoura church, meaning water inlet church.

This style of arched celling is the same in Hamawaki Church. The beautiful architechture is found in many of the Catholic churches in Goto.



One can find the use of flowers as elements in crosses in many of the Churches of Goto.

This stylized depiction of a camellia as a cross is unique to this region of Japan. The tsubaki (camellia) is found in almost all of the churches in Goto.

The church grounds has a stunning garden.






The garden also has crosses that have the fourteen stations of the cross.





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