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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.
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 ...
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.
In August 1945, Numata, then 22, worked at the Hiroshima Communications Bureau, about 1.3 kilometers from the hypocenter of the bomb. [2] She was on the fourth floor of the building when the attack occurred on August 6, and her left ankle was injured when she was buried under debris.
The Maidens were also portrayed in the 1988 movie Hiroshima Maiden, which depicted a hibakusha woman staying with an American family. [49] In 1994, poet Daniel James Sundahl released a book titled Hiroshima Maidens: Imaginary Translations from the Japanese, which recounts the psychological impact the bombing of Hiroshima might have had on the ...
Women who say they were abused by a once-prominent Jesuit artist said Tuesday they had been revictimized by his superiors, saying Pope Francis’ recent gestures and an apparent effort to ...
Pedro Descoqs, French Jesuit philosopher and supporter of Action Française; Ippolito Desideri, Italian Jesuit missionary to Tibet; Paul de Barry, rector of the Jesuit colleges at Aix, Nîmes, and Avignon, and Provincial of Lyon. Pierre-Jean De Smet, active missionary among the Native Americans of the Western United States in the mid-19th century
The Jesuits kicked him out of the order last year after he refused to respond to allegations of spiritual, psychological and sexual abuses by about 20 women, most of whom, like Branciani, were ...