The Archive · 1941

Six Killed at Prayer

London, Feb, 3. When rescue workers recovered six bodies from the ruins of a Roman Catholic Archbishop's house at Portsmou'h after a recent air raid, it was discovered that all six victims had been struck down in the act of kneeling in prayer, Three priests had also been trapped when three high-explosive bombs fell on the! building, but they were saved by girders holding off the debris and joined the rescue party in a vain effort to save the six others, all of whom were members of the Bishop's

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