At a party, young men who had come back from the war maimed — one deaf, one missing a foot and an arm, one with TB, one a near-priest who left the priesthood — dived into the pool still wearing the St Christopher medals they credited for their survival; Neville asked his wife whether they would have him there if they knew what he taught, and she answered that as a Protestant he couldn't be saved anyway, just as her father, whom they loved dearly, could not.
Date (happened)
before 1 February 1972
unresolved
- before 1 February 1972
- before 1972
Told / reported
- 2 January 1972
Sources
Source
- Feel After Him ¶25 (But they all wore their St. Christopher medals when they dived into the pool at their home and they attributed their recovery or their so-called coming out of the army to St. Christopher.)