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Schiffer (left) with Enola Gay co-pilot and aircraft commander Robert A. Lewis in 1951. Father Hubert Friedrich Heinrich Schiffer, S.J. (July 15, 1915 in Gütersloh, Province of Westphalia, Prussia, German Empire – March 27, 1982 in Frankfurt, West Germany) [1] was a German Jesuit who survived the atomic bomb "Little Boy" dropped on Hiroshima.
Arrupe was appointed Jesuit superior and novice master in Japan in 1942, and was living in suburban Hiroshima when the atomic bomb fell in August 1945. He was one of eight Jesuits who were within the blast zone of the bomb, and all eight survived the destruction, protected by a hillock which separated the novitiate from the center of Hiroshima ...
After the war, during the winter of 1945–46, Hersey was in Japan, reporting for The New Yorker on the reconstruction of the devastated country, when he found a document written by a Jesuit missionary who had survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The journalist visited the missionary, who introduced him to other survivors.
Pedro Descoqs, French Jesuit philosopher and supporter of Action Française; Ippolito Desideri, Italian Jesuit missionary to Tibet; Paul de Barry, rector of the Jesuit colleges at Aix, Nîmes, and Avignon, and Provincial of Lyon. Pierre-Jean De Smet, active missionary among the Native Americans of the Western United States in the mid-19th century
Group of 7 leaders convene in Hiroshima and honor victims of the U.S. atomic bomb. But they have no new plans to reduce the threat of nuclear war. Last survivors of Hiroshima bombing watch as ...
An interview is shown with a Jesuit priest, who describes his experience, and notes that he believes that approximately 100,000 people died. Then the film moves on to Nagasaki, telling the audience that U.S. President Harry S. Truman warned the Japanese that he would use more nuclear weapons if they didn't surrender. The Nagasaki mission is ...
In May 1949, one of the Jesuit priests who performed the rites declared that the last one had been successful. The boy went on to live a normal life as an engineer for NASA.
Next to him, at the altar of his church in northern Mexico, Jesuit priests Javier Campos, 79, and Joaquín Mora, 80, lay in a pool of blood. Still hurting from violence, Mexican priests and ...