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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN~ FOR SOUTHEASTMASSACHUSaTS

CAPE CODaTHElSlAtml FALL RIVER, MASS.

VOL. 45, NO. 11 • Friday, March 16, 2001

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SAINT PATRICK

Catholics pay hOlTIage to pair of beloved Saints BISHOP SEA~

P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., joins the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Saint Anne's Hospital Tuesday. With the bishop, from left: Fall River Mayor Edward M: Lambert Jr., Hospital President Michael Metzler, and Trustees' Chairman Dominican Sister"Joanna Fernandes. (Anchor/Gordon photo)

Saint Anne's dedicates breast cancer center· FALL RIVER - The new, three-story, FIRSTFED Center for Breast Cancer at Saint Anne's Hospital was blessed and dedicated by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., at ceremonies Tuesday. "We congratulate the Saint Anne's family today," said

Bishop O'Malley. "This wonderful facility will greatly enhance the work being done here at the hospital and help serve people with love." The bishop said he was pleased to be on hand to share in Turn to page J3 - Hospital

The month of March affords Catholics the opportunity to celebrate the feast days of two men whose lives are shining illustrations of Christian love and charity. The feast of St. Patrick is remembered on March 17, and the feast of St. Joseph is March 19. As a boy, Patrick, the son of a well-to-do official, was kidnapped from his home in Britain by Irish invaders. He was treated no better than an animal by his captors, yet, several years after his escape, he returned to Ireland amid many perils to remote places to baptize, confirm and ordain clergy among the people who had once tormented him. St. Joseph, the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a true model of piety, obedience and fatherhood. A silent figure in the Gospels, uttering no words, St. Joseph's actions speak volumes today about obeying God's commands and the importance of family.

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Three receive Pro·Ecclesia et Pontifice medal By JAMESN. DUNBAR FALL RIVER - Three people who have given outstanding service to the Church have been awa~ded the prestigious papal medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice. Bishop Sean P. O'Malley. OFM Cap., presented the medals at a noon luncheon Thursday at the Quequechan Club to Rosemary Dussault, retired general manager of The Anchor; retired Professor Anthony J. John of the University of MassachusettsDartmouth; and Grace Taylor, former secretary at the Diocesan Department of Education. ' The medal was instituted by Pope Leo xm in 1888 in memory of his golden sacerdotal jubilee, and bestowed on those

women and men who had aided the jubilee and Vatican Exposition successful. The decoration was made a permanent

ROSEMARY DUSSAULT

award ip. October 1898. Its object is to reward those who in a general way deserve well of the pope on account of services

PROF. ANTHONY J. JOHN

GRACE TAYLOR

done for the Church and the papacy. The medal is a cross made octangular by fleur-de-lis fixed in the angles of the cross. In the center is an image of its founder and encircling the image are the words "Leo xm P.M. ANNO X." On the obverse side are the papal emblems surrounded by the motto: "Pro Deo et Pontifice." Other markings are those of the coat of arms of the Pecci Family (Pope Leo was born Gioacchino Vincenzo Pecci). The ribbon is purple, with delicate lines of white and yellow on each border. The decoration is worn on the right side of the breast. ' Rosemary Dussault was general, manager of The Anchor from July 1, 1989 until Turn to page 12 - Pro Ecclesia


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