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50 years ago — Feb. 10, 1967
Among the leaders of the mobilization in Washington of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam was this group seen at the White House gate. At left with hand extended is Rev. Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., and an observer at Vatican Council II; in center with beard is Rabbi Abraham Heschel, New York; and at right in profile, Father Daniel J. Berrigan, S.J., New York. (NC Photos)
25 years ago — Feb. 14, 1992
Bishop’s recuperation “better than expected”
Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario celebrated Mass again at home, four weeks to the day after his quintuple bypass heart surgery.
The bishop returned to his residence at St. Stephen Diocesan Center Monday evening, Feb. 10, following three weeks of recuperation at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace rectory. The next morning, he offered the Eucharist privately in the small chapel that serves the resident clergy.
“I’m grateful for all the prayers and concern and good wishes,” Bishop Ferrario told the Hawaii Catholic Herald over the phone that day.
“The operation and the care in the hospital was excellent in every way,” he said. “Regarding the recovery, everything went better than expected, like clockwork – better than clockwork.”
10 years ago — Feb. 9, 2007
Sign of the future
It took place in the middle of the week, around 10:30 in the morning with no one paying attention except for the workers and a supervisor or two. Four maintenance men climbed onto the roof extension over the entranceway of the former St. Francis Hospital in Liliha and lowered a 70-foot long vinyl banner over the dark brown letters and symbols that for so long had identified the building as Hawaii’s first Catholic hospital. …
St. Francis Medical Center, and its sister facility with the same name is west Oahu, have been sold. …
The transfer of ownership of the two St. Francis Hospitals to Hawaii Medical Center LLC, an alliance of local physicians and a mainland company, is no surprise. The complicated negotiations and approval process to seal the deal had dragged on for more than a year after the Sisters of St. Francis announced their intention to exit acute care and chart a different course of health ministry in Hawaii.
The closing of the sale took place in Honolulu on Jan. 14.
