Rosary Miracle - Safe in the midst of Hiroshima Blast
Eight Jesuit Fathers who were less than a mile from the epicenter survived with no injuries and no after-effects. One of them attributed their survival to their devotion to the Rosary.
I didn’t know that. Chuck Sweeney, the pilot of Bock’s Car, gives a pretty good accounting of the mission. They were to under orders bomb “visually” even though they had a crude ground mapping radar.
Due to bad weather they had to shift to Nagisaki (Kokura was the primary & it was socked in.) Sweeney was low on fuel having missed a rendevous with a photographic plane. Add in the fact that the bomb was armed prior to take-off, you can pretty much guess that Sweeney’s ‘miracle’ was that the clouds ‘parted’ just enough to allow visual bombing. They really needed to get rid of that puppy as they didn’t have enough fuel to bring it home. (They might have vaporized the Island of Tinnian & all the US servicemen there if they’d crashlanded.
Bottom line: Sweeneys drop was wide of the mark and a more powerful bomb (than Hiroshima’s) did less damage.
Reading the link, I believe the same is said for the Monastery that St. Maximilian Kolbe was involved in though he perished in Auschwitz.
“Between 1930 and 1936 he took a series of missions to Japan, where he founded a monastery at the outskirts of Nagasaki, a Japanese paper and a seminary. The monastery he founded remains prominent in the Roman Catholic Church in Japan. Kolbe decided to build the monastery on a mountain side that, according to Shinto beliefs, was not the side best suited to be in tune with nature. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Kolbe’s monastery was saved because the blast of the bomb hit the other side of the mountain, which took the main force of the blast. Had Kolbe built the monastery on the preferred side of mountain as he was advised, his work and all of his fellow monks would have been destroyed.” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe
Oh, I see your link is about Hiroshima, Kolbe’s Monastery was in Nagasaki.