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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.
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. [14]
Robert De Nobili, Italian missionary to India (Madurai Mission), who tried to inculturate Christian values to the Indian culture; Henri Depelchin, Belgian missionary, pioneer, writer and educator in India and Africa; Pedro Descoqs, French Jesuit philosopher and supporter of Action Française; Ippolito Desideri, Italian Jesuit missionary to Tibet
João Rodrigues (1561 or 1562 – 1633 or 1634), distinguished as Tçuzu and also known by other names in China and Korea, was a Portuguese sailor, warrior, and Jesuit interpreter, missionary, priest, and scholar in Japan and China.
Jesuit missionaries in the United States (8 P) V. Jesuit missionaries in Vietnam (6 P) Pages in category "Jesuit missionaries" The following 137 pages are in this ...
It’s fitting that Pope Francis will start his first official visit to Japan in Nagasaki, the city where Christianity first took hold in the country and where nearly 500 years later it remains ...
Map of the villages and residence of the Madurai Mission. The Madurai Mission, or Madura Mission, (1606-1773/1937-1952) was a Jesuit mission founded in 1606 encompassing the south-eastern portion of the Indian peninsula around the Coromandel coast stretching from its tip to areas slightly north of the Vellar River although it would later lose parts of its jurisdiction to the Carnatic Mission ...
Three Christian missionaries from Missions in Haiti were shot and killed in an ambush by a gang in Haiti, the Oklahoma-based group said on Friday. The missionaries were taking shelter in a house ...