Bishop Shirahama of Hiroshima and Sant’Egidio led a 75-hour prayer relay linking Japan, Rome, and New York — closing at the exact minute the second bomb fell.
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At 8 a.m. on Thursday, August 6 — the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima — Bishop Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama of Hiroshima celebrated Mass at the World Peace Memorial Cathedral in the city’s Noboricho district, at the very hour the diocese gathers each year, minutes after the 1945 blast. With that Mass, a 75-hour vigil for peace began — and it
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