Power of the Rosary

THE EVENT:
In Hiroshima, a small community of Jesuit Fathers lived in a church
house near the parish church, situated only eight blocks from the
center of the bomb blast.

When Hiroshima was destroyed by the atomic bomb,
all eight members of the small Jesuit community escaped unscathed,
while every other person who was within a radius of roughly one and a
half kilometers from the center of the explosion died immediately. The
church house where the Jesuits lived was still standing, while the
buildings in every direction from it were leveled. (This coincides with the
bombing of Nagasaki where St. Maximilian Kolbe had established a
Franciscan Friary which was also unharmed and also had no effects from
The Nagasaki bomb.)


Testimony of a survivor:
Father Hubert Shiffer was one of these eight Jesuit survivors. He
was 30 when the atomic bomb exploded at Hiroshima and lived
another 33 years in good health. He recounted his experiences at
Hiroshima during the Eucharistic Congress held in Philadelphia (USA)
in 1976. At that time, all eight members of the Jesuit community were
still alive.
Fr. Shiffer, on the morning of August 6, 1945, he had just
finished Mass, went into the rectory and sat down at the breakfast
table, and had just sliced a grapefruit, and had just put his spoon
into the grapefruit when there was a bright flash of light. His first
thought was that it was an explosion in the harbor (this was a major
port where the Japanese refueled their submarines.)

Then, in the words of Fr. Schiffer: "Suddenly, a terrific explosion
filled the air with one bursting thunderstroke. An invisible force
lifted me from the chair, hurled me through the air, shook me,
battered me, whirled me 'round and round like a leaf in a gust of
autumn wind." The next thing he remembered, he opened his eyes and he
was laying on the ground. He looked around and there was NOTHING
in any direction: the railroad station and buildings in all directions
were leveled to the ground.
The only physical harm to himself was that he could feel a few
pieces of glass in the back of his neck. As far as he could tell,
there was nothing else physically wrong with himself. After the
conquest of the Americans, their
army doctors and scientists explained to him that his body
would begin to deteriorate because of the radiation. To the doctors
amazement, Fr. Schiffer's body contained no radiation or ill-effects
from the bomb.

Conclusion: There are no physical laws to explain why the
Jesuits were untouched in the Hiroshima airblast. There is no other
actual or test data where a structure such as this was not totally
destroyed at this standoff distance by an atomic weapon. All who were
at this range from the epicenter should have received enough radiation
to be dead within at most a matter of minutes if nothing else happened
to them. There is no known way to design a uranium-235 atomic bomb,
which could leave such a large discrete area intact while destroying
everything around it immediately outside the fireball (by shaping the
plasma).

Not only did they all survive with (at most) relatively
minor injuries, but they all lived well past that awful day
with no radiation sickness, no loss of hearing, or any other visible
long term defects or maladies. Naturally, they were interviewed
numerous times (Fr. Schiffer said over 200 times) by scientists and
health care people about their remarkable experience. The eight
Jesuits say "we believe that we survived because we were living the
message of Fatima. We lived and prayed the rosary daily in that home."
Fr. Shiffer feels that he received a protective shield from the Blessed
Mother which protected him from all radiation and ill-effects.
Fr. Schiffer attributes this to devotion to the Blessed Mother, and his
daily Fatima Rosary; "in that house the Holy Rosary was recited
together every day."
Of course the secular scientists are speechless and incredulous
at this explanation - and they are sure there is some "real"
explanation - but at the same time over 50 years later the scientists
are still absolutely bamboozled when it comes to finding a plausible
scenario to explain the missionary's unique escape from the hellish
power of that bomb. From a scientific viewpoint, what happened to those
Jesuits at Hiroshima still defies all human logic from the laws of
physics as understood today (or at any time in the future). It must be
concluded that some other (external) force was present whose power
and/or capability to transform energy and matter as it relates to
humans is beyond current comprehension; a plausibility argument for
the existence of a Creator who left his "calling card" at Hiroshima

 

I gave my grandaughter a rosary and told her this story when she went off to college.

The Killer and the Rosary​

By Sr. Emmanuel​

To understand that Our Lady needs us, it helps to begin with the awareness that we also need Her and that Her help never fails those who pray to Her with a sincere heart. This American Monsignor is a good witness of that.
On May 14, 2009, Msgr. William Kerr, a leading human rights figure, died. Msgr. Kerr often spoke of his very first hospital assignment, where he ministered to a young burn victim dying from his injuries. Later, he recalled, he would be called upon to perform even more ghastly duties.
In 1978, the police called Msgr. Kerr in the middle of the night to accompany them to a sorority house in Tallahassee. When he arrived he was told that all but one of the girls in the house were dead or near death, killed by the infamous serial killer, Ted Bundy. After administering last rites to one of the college girls who was dying, the police on the scene asked Fr. Kerr to speak with a girl who had survived the massacre unscathed. They had a very specific question: Why did Bundy stop right inside the door to her room, drop his weapon, and leave without touching her?
The young woman refused to speak to anyone except a priest. When Fr. Kerr approached the near-catatonic girl, she told him that her mother had made her promise, before going off to college for the first time, that she would pray the Rosary every night before bed for protection – even if she fell asleep praying the Rosary, which she had that night. When Bundy came into her room to murder her as he had the other girls, the beads were still clutched in her hands.
Ironically, Bundy later sought out Msgr. Kerr as a spiritual counselor while he waited on death row. Over the course of their sessions, Bundy explained to Msgr. Kerr that when he entered the girl’s room, he just wasn’t able to continue with his spree, he dropped his weapon, and he fled.
Such is the power of our Mother’s protective mantle. Such also is the wisdom of a mom, who managed to give her daughter the most efficient, powerful weapon – the rosary – which later saved her life.

 

Thanks I sent that story to my daughter

 

I was talking about the 8 priests last night at dinner with my grandmother and father and was shocked with what my father revealed to me. Apparently my grandfather's brother was one of the first American's into Hiroshima after the bomb. When my father was going through my grandfather's stuff after death he found an envelope and in it was a bunch of pictures and an original 8 page interview with Father Seimes. He is scanning it for me and I can't wait to see it.

this is a copy of the letter on the internet but what he has is a copy of the original on very old yellow paper:

http://www.wtj.com/archives/hiroshima.htm