He trusted science.
He believed reason was enough.
He thought faith was a weakness.
And the Church now calls him Servant of God Takashi Nagai.
Takashi Nagai was a brilliant Japanese physician and radiologist. Raised in Shinto and influenced by materialism, he searched for truth in microscopes and textbooks. God, to him, was an idea—interesting, but unnecessary.
Then suffering entered his life.
While studying medicine, Nagai was exposed to radiation. His health began to fail. Around the same time, he encountered the quiet witness of Japanese Christians—people who had endured centuries of persecution and still sang hymns with peace.
Curiosity turned into questions.
Reading the Bible late at night, caring for the sick by day, Nagai slowly realized something science could not explain: love that endured pain without bitterness. He was baptized Catholic.
He married Midori Moriyama, a devout Catholic, and together they lived a life of deep faith.
Then war came.
On August 9, 1945, the atomic …More
Thanks for this. He was overwhelmed by a painting of our Lady at the Cathedral in Nagasaki in his conversion.
The “terrible mystery of providence”he talks about is the targeting of Catholics of Japan so that they can intercede with God for never again nuclear war. An anathema that it seems only the Shiite Sect of Islam has officially recognized among major religions. This targeting of Catholics is being repeated in Ukraine by soulless Ukrainian and European leaders with non-constitutional American support.
Takashi Nagai is one of my intercessors in Radiolgy.