Juàzeiro do Norte (English spelling)

Japanese: ジュアゼイロ･ド･ノルテ（英語表記）Juàzeiro do Norte

A religious city in the Cariri Valley at the foot of the Araripe Plateau in the southern part of the state of Ceara in northeastern Brazil. Population 163,527 (1991). Also known simply as Juazeiro. When Father Cicero Romão Batista began preaching in 1872, it was just a small village, but after poor farmers in Sertão (a semi-arid inland region) began to believe that he was the reincarnation of Christ who performed miracles, it became a major pilgrimage site, and by the time of his death in 1934, it had become the capital of Sertão with a population of about 40,000.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

ブラジル北東部のセアラ州南部，アラリペ高地のふもとカリリ渓谷にある宗教都市。人口16万3527(1991)。単にジュアゼイロとも呼ぶ。1872年シセロ神父Cícero Romão Batistaが説教を始めたときは一寒村にすぎなかったが，彼がセルトン(半乾燥内陸地帯)の貧しい農民から奇跡を行うキリストの再来と信仰されてから一大巡礼地となり，シセロが死亡した1934年には約4万人が居住するセルトンの雄都となっていた。

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