August 14, 2012
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Hiroshima miracle Jesuit survivors
This is old, but I haven’t seem much written on it….
There were 8 Jesuits living in a house one mile from blast epi-center. None were injured, and none suffered radiation poisoning.
Everything else around was destroyed, and the people vaporized. The house was hit by 600 psi wind pressure, and as much as 20,000 degree heat for about half a minute. Yet many of the windows were not even broken.
It turns out these 8 Jesuits were firm believers in Our Lady of Fatima, and said the rosary together every day (remember this was back in 1942!)
Tomorrow is the Catholic Feast of the Assumption. Promulgated in 1950 by Pope Pius XVII it is a declaration that is doctrinally infallible. The Vatican investigations into the miracle of the Sun at Fatima in 1917, led the Pope to become infallibly convinced that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was in fact alive with her physical body in heaven. This may be the only Catholic doctrine that is not referenced in the Bible.
The US Army interviewed these 8 survivors extensively, but has refused to comment about it.
Perhaps our resident Jesuit at xanga, our dear Jacob, can comment as to whether or not Fr. Pedro Arrupe SJ was one of these Jesuits. I do know that Fr. Arrupe was an Hiroshima survivor, but was he one of these 8 that survived miraculously so close to the bomb detonation. Fr. Arrupe was elected Superior General of the Jesuits and served a long time in that capacity. He is now deceased.
I have in my possession a booklet in Japanese apparently published by a Catholic parish at Nagasaki, the other nuclear bomb blast site. It shows scenes of incredible total destruction, with people and glass melted together into a single mass, and other testimonies to the terror of nuclear bombs. BAN THE BOMBS!!!! One photo shows a young Catholic school girl emerging unharmed from a church bomb shelter in the midst of total destruction.
There has not been a nuclear detonation in war since that date, August 8, 1945. We all live in dread of it happening again, perhaps sooner than we might imagine….. The first demonstration I went to was in 1964 when I was in high school – at the UN – BAN THE BOMB! since that movement was not successful many other evils have proliferated in the world…i.e. drug use, baby killing, loss of moral compass….if nuclear bombs are admitted to be rational, then the whole world is CRAZY!!
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Fr. Arrupe was indeed one of the eight Jesuits who survived, totally unharmed, when the bomb detonated at Hiroshima; I remember being told the story in novitiate. Our Lady is no slouch!
Also, you might recall that the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is also a “non-Biblical” doctrine infallibly declared by the Pope in 1854. I put non-Biblical in quotes because a proper interpretation of “Hail, full of grace…” in the original Greek can be understood to be referring to an event that took place in the past and still pertains to the present moment; the Greek literally translates, “Hail, having-been-filled-with-grace.”
oh yeah, that’s right ! thanks. The Immaculate Conception…wow is that beautiful or what…and Bernadette is in my photo page, sleeping like a baby these 130 years since her death.