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About The Georgia bulletin (Atlanta) 1963-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1987)
Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Vol. 25 No. 16 Thursday, April 16, 1987 $12.00 Per Year 'Walk In Peace' Community Offers Care To Nicaraguan Family . BY PAULA DAY "Go back and tell John what you hear and see; the blind see again, and the lame walk." Matthew 11:4-5 - Miracles happened nearly 2,000 years ago — “miracles” still happen today — that is the hope and aim of Jubilee Partners, a Christian community located in Comer, Georgia, near Athens. - The story of 19-year-old Carmen Marina Picado, double amputee victim of a landmine blast in Nicaragua, is the story of that hope for a modern miracle, fulfilled. Last October, Carmen, her seven-year-old niece, Elda ‘ Sanchez, and Elda’s father, Amancio, a Pentecostal minister, boarded a small truck loaded with about 50 civilians for a trip to Jinotega, Nicaragua, the nearest large city. Suddenly, as it traveled down the main road, the * truck’s rear wheels detonated a land mine and an explosion tore it apart. Because of injuries suffered in the explosion, Amancio. had one leg amputated. Elda had one leg amputated im- * mediately and the other was badly injured. Carmen lost both legs, one below the knee, the other above the knee. Jubilee Partners brought the three victims to the United „ States, Feb. 9, for medical treatment. On March 12 Elda and Amancio were able to return to Nicaragua fitted with (Continued on page 11) * May 4 Jubilee Mass Cathedral Notes -50th Anniversary BY RITA McINERNEY Another significant chapter in the Catholic history of Georgia will be written on Monday, May 4, when the Cathedral of Christ the King commemorates its 50th an- „ niversary with a Mass to be concelebrated by its pastor. Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan. and priests of the arch diocese. Homilist for the Mass will be Cardinal Joseph Bernardin - of the archdiocese of Chicago. Cardinal Bernardin served as auxiliary bishop and fourth pastor of Christ the King from 1966 to 1968. Bishop Gerald P. O’Hara, bishop of the diocese of Savan- * nah which covered the entire state of Georgia, established the parish of Christ the King on June 15, 1936. The new parish brought the number in Atlanta to five. The others were Immaculate Conception, the pre-Civil War mother * church of the city established in 1848; Sacred Heart, dedicated May 1, 1898; St. Anthony’s, started in the fashionable West End in 1903, and Our Lady of Lourdes, which was established for black Catholics in 1912. There were several parishes outside Atlanta; St. Joseph’s in Athens, with missions in Gainesville and Griffin, and 16 stations in north and central Georgia. The parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Milledgeville, had missions in * Dublin, Sandersville, Ivey, James, Sparta and Eatonton. St. Mary’s parish in Rome had missions in Adairsvilie, Budapest. Calhoun, Cedartown, Dalton, Kingston and . (Continued on page 6) I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. (Psalm 118, Easter Liturgy)
