“Library : Pope Pius IX and Japan. The History of an Oriental Miracle”. www.catholicculture.org. 2024年11月24日閲覧。 “On January 8, 1867, His Holiness Pope Pius IX dispatched a special message to Fr. Bernard Petitjean of the Paris Foreign Mission Society, who at the time was involved in missionary work in the city of Nagasaki. The purpose of His Holiness was to personally bless an event, which he exuberantly described as a “Miracle of the Orient.””
