I just learned of a very interesting fact I had never heard before. It was in the re-debut issue of Envoy Magazine.
It seems that there were some German Jesuit missionaries who were in the habit of praying the rosary daily at the Church of Our Lady's Assumption in Hiroshima. Despite the fact that they were eight blocks from the epicenter of the atomic bomb, they came away with only minor injuries. They were in a house attached to the church which was unharmed; the church was destroyed, with everything around it.
By all rights they should have died — there is no explanation for how someone could have survived an atomic blast so close. They didn't even contract radiation sickness. Details with references and interviews can be found on this page. What an awesome testimony to the power of God!
As if that wasn't enough, a similar miracle occurred in Nagasaki with some Franciscan friars, though a bit different: the monastery was providentially built, against the advice of the superstitious locals, on the side of a mountain that protected it from the blast.
God is good!
