Is There Any Truth At All

[justfran]

...to this story about the Jesuit priests who survived the Hiroshima bombing because they prayed the Rosary everyday or something? I've heard that they recounted their experiences during the Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia 1976 or something.

Just curious.

[qfnol31]

One of St. Maximilian Kolbe's communities survived just because of it's location, but still a miracle!

[DancesforLove]

i've never heard anything about it.

[justfran]

Well probably one of the more trustworthy sources I've found is [url="http://www.medjugorje.org/echo/e120.pdf"]this one[/url], but it only mentions it with a reference to where they got it from, no more.

[StColette]

[url="http://www.marysremnant.org/News/Archives/Miracle.html"]http://www.marysremnant.org/News/Archives/Miracle.html[/url]

That tells the Hiroshima story

[DancesforLove]

thats pretty cool.

[justfran]

I'm still really cynical about it...I dunno. The link to the Fr's speech didn't work, and apparently people are telling different versions of the story, some say there were eight priests, some say there were four...

[StColette]

The story itself is completely true !

[justfran]

the priest at last night's Mass said he never heard it verified, that's why i'm looking around

[StColette]

not all miracles are "verified"

[StColette]

[url="http://www.yearoftherosary.org/hiroshima_miracle.htm"]http://www.yearoftherosary.org/hiroshima_miracle.htm[/url] Another site that talks about it.

[justfran]

I'm not sure about the reliability of this site (after all, it is someone's personal webspace, and he's anti-Catholic, so be careful about what you read there)

[url="http://sxws.com/charis/mary25.htm"]http://sxws.com/charis/mary25.htm[/url]

But he does point out some inconsistencies btwn accounts, eg. some sites say that over half a million people died but the people at Hiroshima's A-Bomb Museum say the population at the time was about half as much.

Edited July 26, 2004 by justfran

[StColette]

well there first thing that ought to tip you off that the site isn't reliable is the fact that the person is "anti-Catholic" which gives the go ahead to assume that he is "anti-Mary"

[justfran]

I know that, that's why i said be careful what you read....just note the inconsistencies between accounts...

also, when i look up sites like ewtn, CIN, Catholic.com, Catholic.Org, there's no mention of it. That's why I'm kinda cynical

Edited July 26, 2004 by justfran

[justfran]

vatican.va doesn't mention anything either

[cmotherofpirl]

It is absolutely true.
Father Mitch Pacwa of EWTN and Father Groeshel have both talked about the miracle at Hiroshima.

Our Lady protects her own.

[justfran]

There were some inconsistencies in the reports above, though. All the priests survived, but they weren't free of the radiation sickness. I found the bk Hiroshima by John Hersey (the story was first published in Time magazine) and he did another edition forty yrs later, saying that Fr Kleinsorge lived with leukaemia til 1977.
To me, the miracle is that they survived the blast itself.

I emailed Fr Levesque at CatholicDoors and he said he wasn't familiar with it...
Which program/episode was this? I wanna download it off the ewtn site.

Edited July 27, 2004 by justfran

[shelly_freak]

i heard that story at ncyc

[justfran]

NCYC?

[justfran]

Just sent an email to someone at the Historical Soc. of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, asking for stuff on that speech that Fr Schiffer gave...I'm not expecting anything soon, the site says that the manuscripts for the stuff on the '76 Eucharistic Congress is unavailable atm.