Word: nagatsuka
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...optimistic by disease," says one colleague. But the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe has reason to be optimistic. He is a survivor of a cataclysm next to which the problems of his Jesuits must instantly pale. As rector of a Jesuit novitiate in wartime Japan, he was in Nagatsuka, a suburb of Hiroshima, on Aug. 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb struck. "Arrupe," says a Jesuit associate, "has seen the Apocalypse...
Arrupe was transferred to Nagatsuka in 1942. When the bomb fell on Hiroshima, his old medical experience proved priceless. Disregarding reports of poisonous gases in the ruins, he and his fellow Jesuits waded into the smoldering city, taking victims back to the temporary infirmary they had set up in the novitiate...
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