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PAGE 6 — The Georgia Bulletin, June 6, 1985
Memorable Day
Saturday, June 1, was the day long awaited
by the young man from St. Thomas More parish
in Decatur, Peter Rau who was ordained in a
solemn ceremony presided over by Archbishop
Thomas A. Donnellan at the Cathedral of Christ
the King, Atlanta. In the photo at left, Father
Joseph Peacock, of the Cathedral, places his
hands upon the head of the candidate as other
priests from the archdiocese line up to perform
the ritual.
In the photograph below, the newly ordained
Father Rau is shown with his sisters, from left,
Joan, Peggy and Carol.
The new priest graduated in 1980 from
Georgia State before entering St. Vincent de
Paul Seminary, Boynton Beach, Fla.
Pope Fulfills Own Prophecy
By Ordaining His Yankee Tutor
BV SISTER
MARY ANN WALSH
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
Pope John Paul II made his
own prophecy come true
June 2 when he ordained to
the priesthood a 38-year-old
American who taught him
English in Cracow, Poland,
eight years ago.
“Now your prophecy is
fulfilled,” said Father
Patrick Fletcher, a native
of the Archdiocese of
Milwaukee, to the pope in
Polish as he knelt before
him in St. Peter’s Basilica.
The pope, in reply, em
braced his former teacher,
looked into his eyes and
made the sign of the cross
on his forehead.
Three times before he
was elected pontiff, Pope
John Paul had predicted he
would ordain Fletcher, who
had been his tutor in 1977
while studying at the
University of Cracow.
“The Holy Father taught
me a lot more than I ever
taught him,” Father Flet
cher told National Catholic
News Service after his or
dination.
Father Fletcher, one of
70 priests ordained by the
pope at the ceremony ( said
that he had met the pope
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during various stays in
Poland from 1974 to 1983.
Fletcher studied psychol
ogy, taught English at the
seminary in Cracow and
did translations from
Polish into English.
The pope was then Car
dinal Karol Wojtyla of
Cracow, and in 1976 he
visited the United States
for the International
Eucharistic Congress in
Philadelphia. On that trip,
he visited Stevens Point,
Wis., where he first
predicted he would ordain
Fletcher.
“ I said ‘thank you, Your
Eminence, but I have other
plans,’ ” Father Fletcher
recalled.
One year later, Fletcher
met the cardinal again, this
time in Paris.
“Again he said it,”
recalled Father Fletcher,
“and I answered ‘thanks,
but no thanks.’ ”
But the cardinal insisted,
and Fletcher said that
perhaps he would become a
permanent deacon.
“ ‘No, you’ll see. I’ll ordain
you to the priest
hood,’ ” he said the car
dinal insisted.
Father Fletcher said he
did not think seriously of
the priesthood until he liv
ed under Poland’s 1980-81
martial law.
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Father Fletcher said that
he chose to study at Rome’s
Pontifical Nepomucene
College “so I could be close
to the center of the church
and to the Holy Father.”
He will work for the
Diocese of Ponce, Puerto
Rico, because he was asked
to be a missionary there, he
said.
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