EXHIBITION
PROVOCATIONS
The video will be accompanied by a small-scale exhibition, titled Provocations.
Provocations is a series of visual and non-visual responses to some of the themes touched by the three speakers of the video documentary featuring Rowan William, Julian Carron and Charles Taylor.
Built around the experiences of an art curator and a writer, Provocations will look at the journey from uncertainty to certainty made possible by a Christian encounter.
GUIDED TOUR:
Saturday 23rd: 11 -12 pm
Saturday 23rd: 3.30 - 4.30 pm
Sunday 24th: 11- 12 pm
EXHIBITION
THE TRUE SOURCE OF LIFE AND THE MEANING OF PEACE
Raised in the Shinto tradition, Takashi Nagai (1908-1951) was drawn to modern materialism during his medical studies, but allowed his restless heart and reason to engage with the provocations of life and death into a journey that culminated with the encounter with Midori Moriyama (1908-1945) and the conversion to Catholicism.
After getting married, each embraced their vocation of service to their family and community, despite the challenges of illness and war.
On the 9th of August 1945, the atomic bomb exploded on Nagasaki killing Midori. Severely ill and having lost everything but his children, Takashi decisively set out on a path of deeper conversion and profound poverty of spirit, in the service of the Church and his fellow men, becoming a living proclamation of faith.
“He had lost everything. But he was entering his new life, searching for what he could never lose." (‘What never dies’, Takashi Nagai)"
SATURDAY 23 MARCH 12-1 PM
In conversation with
President of Friends of Takashi and Midori Nagai.
Professor of Sociology at Williams College (MA, USA).
GUIDED TOUR:
Saturday 23rd: 11 -12 pm
Saturday 23rd: 3.30 - 4.30 pm
Sunday 24th: 11- 12 pm
Info
Friends of Takashi and Midori Nagai
Friends of Takashi and Midori Nagai is a Committee, recognised as Canonical Actor by the Diocese of Nagasaki, established in Rome on 23 March 2021 by friends who have known the history and faith of the Nagai couple and have been deeply affected by it.
The purpose of the Committee is to spread the testimony of this married couple and promote their cause for beatification.