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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. [15]
Walter Joseph Ciszek, S.J. (November 4, 1904 – December 8, 1984) was a Polish-American Jesuit priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who clandestinely conducted missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963.
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 ...
Andrew White (Jesuit), 17th century English Jesuit, influential figure in the early Maryland Colony who led efforts to convert and improve relations with local Native American tribes George J. Willmann , American priest regarded as the "Father of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines" and Servant of God
Christian missionaries arrived with Francis Xavier and the Jesuits in the 1540s and briefly flourished, with over 100,000 converts, including many daimyōs in Kyushu.The shogunate and imperial government at first supported the Catholic mission and the missionaries, thinking that they would reduce the power of the Buddhist monks, and help trade with Spain and Portugal.
Degli Angelis arrived in Nagasaki in 1602 and worked in the area of what is now Tokyo. He remained there after the publication of the edict expelling all Christian missionaries from the country in 1614. [2] In 1618, the first European on Hokkaido, [6] he was the first missionary to reach Yezo and the Ainu people. De Angelis, after making many ...
Kiyoshi Tanimoto (谷本 清, Tanimoto Kiyoshi, June 27, 1909 – September 28, 1986) was a Japanese Methodist minister famous for his humanitarian work for the Hiroshima Maidens. Tanimoto was a U.S educated Methodist minister and moved to Hiroshima with his wife during the midst of World War II .