Hubby just asked me if Hockton prays the Rosary. I told him the story didn’t say, but I bet he’ll start now!
At that instant a mine went off killing everyone else around him.
And what he bent down to pick up was a rosary.
So the great-grandfather's story (in World War II) was that the rosary was not his (until he bent down to pick it up),..
The The Daily Mail story had more about this...