Hubert Schiffer

But that's only one chapter in a much larger story.

For centuries, Catholics have turned to the rosary during moments when things seemed almost hopeless.

One of the strangest examples comes from nineteenth-century Italy and a man named Bartolo Longo.

Longo had grown up Catholic, but drifted badly during his university years.

He became involved in occultism and eventually described himself as being ordained a Satanic priest.

When the atomic bomb exploded over the city in nineteen forty-five, a small community of Jesuit priests was living only several blocks from the center of the blast.

Their rectory was, of course, damaged, but the priests survived.

One of them, Father Hubert Schiffer, later spoke publicly about their survival and said they believed they had been protected because they were living the message of Fatima and praying the rosary daily.

The priests attributed their extraordinary survival entirely to their daily faithful recitation of the Rosary.

So, this is primarily supported by the personal testimonies of the Jesuit priests themselves, notably Father Hubert Schiffer.

who wrote an account titled The Rosary of Hiroshima, published in 1953, and later publicly testified about his experience decades later, including at the 1976 Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia.

Now,