This altar piece is probably from Saint Adrian Church in Adrian, Minnesota. Check out the matching picture below the altar as well as the icon. The saint on the right might be Saint Rose of Lima? and the one on the left might be Saint Catherine of Siena. But I’m open to correction.
This was drawn by one of my students and is definitely not free to be copied.
Our Lady of Hope as done by Pam Skojec. We were designing a banner together.
And this is a picture I took inside Our Lady of Hope Church one Christmas. The original is to the left of the altar. It is a very modern painting of the apparition.
September 8 is also the anniversary of the death of John Aloysius O’Keefe, III, in 2000 A.D. May he rest in peace. Mom had called me around 4 in the morning and told me he was gone. I wandered around feeling odd but I had duties in the morning at Saint John’s in Leesburg. I was the acting director of the preschool and we were having a chrysanthemum sale. I told the pastor what had happened, and then went to work. Ten minutes later I looked up and he had come back to see me (and all the other workers) with the cutest baby in his arms. It was his great-niece. His sister was visiting because her nephew had also died on September 8 and she and her family had come to visit the grave.
They had evidently had a discussion about me and whatever he had said, the result had been, “If she’s that kind of person, what she needs is a baby in her arms. Here you go.” And back he came to see me. And the funniest part was, that I had already provided myself with a baby, who I must say was not as cute. I like to remember this act of kindness.
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