Church of st. Mary in the town of Mosta is one of the largest not only in Malta, but also in Europe. It was built in 1833-1860 with private donations from the townspeople who decided to build a temple that was not inferior in size and decoration to the Cathedral of St. Peter in Rome. The result is a truly grandiose structure, the diameter of the dome of which is 37 meters. The church is visible from almost anywhere on the island.
On that day, April 9, 1942, mass was served there. 250 Maltese prayed in the temple. They asked the Almighty for an early end to the bloody war, for an end to the bombing, for peace.
And it had to happen that just at that time a German plane with three unloading bombs flew over the temple, returning from a mission. And in order not to return the remainder of the deadly cargo to the base, the pilots decided to drop it onto the roof of a large and intact temple. The pilot pressed the button - the bombs flew towards the target.
However, none of them exploded! Two bounced off the dome and remained on the square until they were defused. The third bomb hit the very center, pierced through the roof and fell at the feet of the astonished parishioners, without hitting anyone, and also calmly waited for the sappers.
The Maltese consider this inexplicable fact a clear proof of the strength of their faith in God, and therefore they keep a defused bomb under glass along with the holy relics right in the prayer hall.
How to explain this fact from a scientific point of view? Of course, it happens that the bombs sometimes do not explode. But three at once? And how to explain the other story with God's patronage of the holy domes that happened in Smolensk?
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The local museum has a monumental painting "Smolensk at the end of 1943, after the expulsion of the Germans." It depicts a heap of ruins after street fighting, in the middle of which protrude … intact skeletons of churches, including the largest building in the city - a huge cathedral on a high hill.
The same stories will be told to you in ancient Novgorod, Vitebsk, in the Moscow region of Zvenigorod. Where the temples were active, where faith in God glimmered, they seemed to be flown around by shells and bombs. God keeps the holy domes. Why not?
Photos from the Smolensk Museum, intact churches in the middle of ruined buildings