59 Years Ago Today
Mushroon Cloud over Nagasaki:
The Urakami Cathedral:
A Statue Blessed Virgin Mary at Ground Zero:
Mushroon Cloud over Nagasaki:
The Urakami Cathedral:
The largest Christian church in Asia at the time, it was used as the target for the A-bomb. Nagasaki had been the center of Catholicism in Japan since the 16th Century. More Christians were killed on that day than in four centuries of savage persecution. The Urakami Cathedral was completely destoyed but later rebuilt exactly as it had been.
A Statue Blessed Virgin Mary at Ground Zero:
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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