It is generally accepted that she refused offers of marriage throughout the rest of her life, no matter how earnestly her parents and those around her advised her to remarry, because she believed in Christian doctrine, which does not allow 'divorce.'
両親や周囲にいくら勧められても終生再婚しなかったのは、教義上「離婚」を認めないキリシタンの信仰ゆえ、と一般には考えられている。