A British soldier in Afghanistan says that his rosary beads saved him from stepping on a land mine. Glenn Hockton, 19, dropped the prayer beads, he said, and noticed as he bent down to retrieve them that he was standing on top of the mine, Fox News reports.
He stood still for 45 minutes while his colleagues worked to secure the land mine.
His great-grandfather, Joseph “Sunny” Truman, was also said to have been saved by his rosary beads while serving in the British army during World War II.
“He was walking across a field with half a dozen of his platoon. He bent down to pick something up and was the only one to survive a sudden bomb blast. He had picked up a rosary.” Hockton’s mother Sheri Jones told the Daily Mail.
On a separate occasion, Hockton, who joined the military when he was 16, was shot in the chest, but his body armor protected him from the bullet.
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