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50 years ago — April 14, 1967
Mr. Clifford G. Martin, the artist who painted the fourteen stations of the cross for Sacred Heart Church in Waianae, stands near the third scene, Jesus Falls the First Time.
25 years ago — April 10, 1992
Cargos of care
It was one year ago on the Big Island that big, white vans began to pay visits to the homes of the homeless — tents, cars and shacks on beaches and in parks — with their cargos of health care, food and counseling.
The Care-a-Vans, a project driven by Hawaii Island Social Ministry under contract with Waikiki Health Center, soon became a familiar symbol of friendship to the people on the psychological, economic and geographic fringes of our society.
Now, the vans schedule 40, but end up making hundreds, of stops a month at the now well-worn gathering spots of Hawaii’s homeless. …
This year the vans logged 49,810 miles and gave away 12,401 pounds of food mostly from the Hawaii Island Foodbank.
10 years ago — April 6, 2007
French nun claims Parkinson’s cure thanks to John Paul II
The French nun who believes she was healed of Parkinson’s disease thanks to Pope John Paul II said her life had “totally changed” since that night two months after the pope’s death.
Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre, 46, is working again, now in Paris at the maternity hospital run by her order, the Little Sisters of Catholic Motherhood. …
“I was sick and now I am cured,” she told reporters. …
In a March 29 statement, Archbishop (Claude) Feidt (of Aix-en-Provence, France), said that after hearing about the alleged healing of Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre he decided to conduct “a thorough investigation” to determine whether it might be the miracle needed for Pope John Paul’s beatification.