Saints at Work: The Nagasaki mission house built by St. Maximilian Kolbe that survived the atomic bomb

CNA—When the American military dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, the city was completely devastated — more than 40,000 people were instantly killed by the blast as well as about 60,000 more in the following five years as a result of radiation-related diseases. Nagasaki Catholics had just gathered for Mass…