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Offline poche

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The Unknown Dead
« on: June 07, 2013, 02:38:10 AM »
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  • At the Archdiocese of Denver's Mount Olivet Cemetery, no person is buried without prayers being said over them – even those whose identities are a mystery.

    “Sometimes we don't even know the person’s name; they could come to us as a John Doe,” Lloyd Swint, assistant director of Cemeteries and Mortuaries for the Denver archdiocese, told CNA June 4.

    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/unknown-dead-buried-with-reverence-at-catholic-cemetery/


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    « Reply #1 on: June 07, 2013, 06:12:47 PM »
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  •  :pray:   :incense:
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir