@article{oai:otsuma.repo.nii.ac.jp:00005595,
 author = {斉藤, 恵子},
 journal = {大妻比較文化 : 大妻女子大学比較文化学部紀要, Otsuma journal of comparative culture},
 month = {},
 note = {P(論文), In my lecture course on "Aspects of foreign culture in Japan" at our Faculty of Comparative Culture, I took up the theme of Christianity in Japan. I introduced three Catholic priests who came to Japan for their mission. After their stay for half a century, they made Japan their final home. They are Herman Heuvers (1890-1977), a German Jesuit, Willem A. Grootaers (1911-1999), a Belgian member of Missionaries de Scheuit (known as Junshin-Kai in Japan), and Georg Sturm (1915-2004) from Switzerland. Father Heuvers was the president of Sophia University, and a chief priest of Kojimachi (St. Ignatius) Catholic church. By his noble personality, he led not less than 3000 Japanese people to Christianity. His love for Japanese culture attained success in his several works of Noh dramas. Father Grootaers, completely bilingual in French and Dutch, was an authority on Japanese dialects. By his contact with numerous common people, he perceived the ethos, the deep spirituality of Japanese. Father Sturm had been a chief priest of a small, rural Catholic church in Ninohe for 45 years. Trained in agriculture from his childhood, he planted more than 2000 trees around the desolated areas, and was awarded several prizes. Their lives are good illustrations of how Christianity was accepted in Japan and at the same time whether it has really taken root in Japanese culture or not. Though each of them experienced some frustration or loneliness in fulfilling their mission, they died in Japan with great satisfaction. They loved Japan deeply in their own way. Their love for Japan is firmly linked to their love and faith in God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, who dispatched them to Japan.},
 pages = {17--31},
 title = {日本に半世紀 : 日本を愛した三人の司祭},
 volume = {7},
 year = {2006}
}