#22. A Miracle Amidst Bombs and Prayers

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While enemy forces bombed a hospital on Easter Morning, Father William Cummings stood resolute, defying the destruction around him with prayer and faith.

Thus, the tale of Bataan’s Easter morning miracle.

And…he also coined the phrase “There are no atheists in foxholes.”

This is the story of a small, ailing Catholic priest determined to join the soldiers on Bataan – and defied the odds to become a guiding light during the final dark days on Bataan.

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Father WIlliam “Bill” Cummings on board a ship leaving San Francisco, California, for Manila in 1940/41.
The iconic San Francisco Painted Ladies, near where Father William Cummings lived in spring 1940.
Corporal Sidney Stewart, who withdrew from Manila to Bataan with Father Cummings.
Army nurse Lt. Juanita Redmond, who served at Bataan Field Hospital #1 and witnessed Father Cumming’s Easter Morning Miracle
Nurse Clara Bickford displays a Christian flag at one of the hospital chapels on Bataan.
One of the covered, open-air wards at Field Hospital #1. Note the iron beds. By the time of the hospital attack, these were stacked 2-3 high.
Picture taken near the entrance to Field Hospital #1. Notice the open-air, covered shed or pavilions in the background, which served as the main hospital wards.
A jungle ward at Hospital #2 on Bataan. Notice some patient’s’ beds are on the ground, while others are on cots. Also, the jungle canopy is the only “roof” for this ward.
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