Dear Editor, In relation to the article of David Quinn (IC 10/08/2017) on the atomic bomb, your readers might like to know that when that bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945 four Jesuit priests were saying the Rosary in a house at the epicentre of the blast, where every building was demolished and people were vaporised in the terrific heat generated by the blast.
Later photographs showed the house in which the priests were praying remained intact and they suffered no aftereffects.
Over many subsequent years they were examined by various medical specialists and scientists, none of whom could explain their survival unscathed. All four priests remained healthy and died of natural causes in their old age.
In 1969, the French government was carrying out nuclear tests on the island of Moruroa in the south Pacific. In photographs of the mushroom generated by the blast, at the bottom left hand corner of the mushroom can be clearly seen Christ on His Cross, with the Blessed Virgin kneeling at the bottom of the Cross. And this was well before digital photography came into being.
Yours etc.,
Pat Mullin,
Drumcondra,
Dublin 9.
