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“In 1918 during the Spanish Influenza epidemic the pastor of St Peter’s church in Philadelphia, which has the Shrine of St John Neumann, asked Our Lady of Perpetual Help to spare the parishioners from the flu. St Peter’s was one of the few churches that was able to remain open during the epidemic and no parishioners died of the flu. Let us, then, invoke Our Lady of Perpetual Help’s intercession during this epidemic.[/color]
http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/olph.htm