Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 25 No. 16
Thursday, April 16, 1987
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'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
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* 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
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I shall not die, but live,
and declare the works of the Lord.
(Psalm 118, Easter Liturgy)
