All 19 Uses of
Jesuit
in
Hiroshima
- …his house because it lay in the path of an air-raid-defence fire lane; Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest of the Society of Jesus, reclined in his underwear on a cot on the top floor of his order's three-storey mission house, reading a Jesuit magazine, Stimmen der Zeit; Dr Terufumi Sasaki, a young member of the surgical staff of the city's large, modern Red Cross Hospital, walked along one of the hospital corridors with a blood specimen for a Wassermann test in his hand; and…†
Chpt 1
- The next things he was conscious of were that he was wandering around in the mission's vegetable garden in his underwear, bleeding slightly from small cuts along his left flank; that all the buildings round about had fallen down except the Jesuits' mission house, which had long before been braced and double-braced by a priest named cropper, who was terrified of earthquakes; that the day had turned dark; and that Murata-san, the housekeeper, was near by, crying over and over, 'Shu…†
Chpt 1
- The only building they saw standing on their way to Asano Park was the Jesuit mission house, alongside the Catholic kindergarten to which Mrs Nakamura had sent Myeko for a time.†
Chpt 2
- The daughter of Mr Hoshijima, the mission catechist, ran up to Father Kleinsorge and said chat her mother and sister were buried under the ruins of their house, which was at the back of the Jesuit compound, and at the same time the priests noticed that the house of the Catholic-kindergarten teacher at the foot of the compound had collapsed on her.†
Chpt 2
- The bomb blew down his house, and a joist pinned him by the legs, in full view of the Jesuit mission house across the way and of the people hurrying along the street.†
Chpt 2
- After the storm, Mr Tanimoto began ferrying people again, and Father Kleinsorge asked the theological student to go across and make his way out to the Jesuit Novitiate at Nagatsuka, about three miles from the center of town, and to request the priests there to come with help for Fathers Schiffer and La-Salle.†
Chpt 2
- One of the Jesuits gave up his coat, another shirt; they were glad to wear less in the muggy night.†
Chpt 3
- They now packed Father Kleinsorge's papier-mache suitcase and the things belonging to Mrs Murata and the Nakamuras into the cart, put the two Nakamura girls aboard, and prepared td start out, Then one of the Jesuits who had a practical turn of mind remembered that they had been notified some time before that if they suffered property damage at the hands of the enemy, they could enter a claim for compensation with the prefectural police.†
Chpt 3
- Father Cieslik started hunting in the neighbourhood of Sakai Bridge, where the Jesuits had last seen Mr Fukai; he went to the East Parade Ground, the evacuation area to which the secretary might have gone, and looked for him among the wounded and dead there; he went to the prefectural police and made inquiries.†
Chpt 3
- The Jesuits took about fifty refugees into the exquisite chapel of the Novitiate.†
Chpt 3
- He offered the Jesuit first a cigarette and then whisky, though it was only eleven in the morning.†
Chpt 3
- A servant brought some Suntory whisky, and the Jesuit, the doctor, and the host had a very pleasant chat.†
Chpt 3
- He did not think his weakness was worth mentioning to the other Jesuits.†
Chpt 4
- Father Cieslik and the rector took him as far as Kobe and a Jesuit from that city took him the rest of the way, with a message from a Kobe doctor to the Mother Superior of the International Hospital: 'Think twice before you give this man blood transfusions, because with atomic— bomb patients we aren't at all sure that if you stick needles in them, they'll stop bleeding.†
Chpt 4
- Then he asked Father Kleinsorge how he was and the Jesuit talked about his stay in the hospital.†
Chpt 4
- She sent Myeko to the kindergarten which the Jesuits reopened,
Chpt 4 *Jesuits = members of a Christian organization known for their schools and missionary work
- He became quite friendly with Father Kleinsorge and saw the Jesuits often.†
Chpt 4
- Father Kleinsorge and the other German Jesuit priests, who, as foreigners, could be expected to take a relatively detached view, often discussed the ethics of using the bomb.†
Chpt 4
- His German Jesuit colleagues were of the opinion that in all his work he was a little too much concerned for others, and not enough for himself.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(Jesuit) a member of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)