50 years ago – April 26, 1963
These fifth and sixth graders proved that they have the makings of future track stars as they won in last week’s CYO Track Meet. The above four boys from Cathedral School won the 440 yard relay dash. They are (left to right) Patrick Fischer, Craig Pagaduan, Robert Kaslausky, and Robert Akana. Robert Akana won also the 50, 100, 200, broad jump and high jump. Patrick Fischer won the 440 yard dash.
25 years ago – April 22, 1988
Cleanup continues and life goes on for saddened parishioners of vandalized church
“A lot of people” went to Mass this past weekend at Star of the Sea Church in Kalapana despite the cruel vandalism discovered last Tuesday morning inside the landmark “painted church,” according to Kini Pe’a, a parishioner there for more than 50 years. This was the third time the tiny Puna mission had been vandalized in the past two months.
According to Puna police reports, the church’s altar cloth and marble altar stone were stolen and heavy, wavy lines of black spray paint caused extensive damage to the church’s famous interior murals, the stained glass windows and five statues behind the altar. Only the murals on the church’s ceiling were untouched.
10 years ago – April 25, 2003
Miracle report
It is Capuchin Franciscan Father Robert Maher’s personal opinion that a miracle occurred.
If the pope agrees, Blessed Damien could be declared a saint.
Father Maher, an associate pastor of St. Elizabeth Church in Aiea, was the delegate judge on the six-member tribunal formed March 12 by Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo to do an investigation of an alleged healing attributed to the intercession of Blessed Damien. …
The tribunal held its last session April 16 at St. Stephen Diocesan Center during which final documents were prepared and a prayer concluded its work.
The tribunal’s task was not for itself to determine if the cure was “miraculous,” but to gather evidence that would ultimately help the pope make that decision.
