After 40 years, 10-meter Virgin Mary statue set for Nagasaki | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

FUJISAWA, Kanagawa Prefecture--A sculptor has almost completed a nearly 10-meter-tall wooden statue of Virgin Mary that he started carving 40 years ago to pray for the souls of thousands of people killed in Kyushu in the 17th century.

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