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Many thanks to a correspondent for this
story of Fr Hubert Schiffer and seven other Jesuits who were in a house about a kilometre from the centre of the blast at Hiroshima and survived while everyone else within that distance was killed instantly.
See also
another account, and
a further account.
Fr Schiffer put the survival of the small community down to their devotion to Our Lady of Fatima and their daily Rosary.