“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” –– Abraham Lincoln
What miracle occurred last December in America’s largest maximum security prison, Angola (Louisiana)? The inmates built a Catholic chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe in 38 days. Prisoner Jorge Rodriguez commented, “This was a bloody prison before but God is using [Warden] Burl Cain to show the world that this place changed and people can be changed.” Blessings upon the Valdez and Garcia families for making this miracle happen.
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About Fr Simon Devereux LC
FR SIMON was born on February 4, 1979, in Dunedin, New Zealand, the seventh son of Marie and Michael Devereux. He entered the novitiate of the Legionaries of Christ in Cheshire, Connecticut, on September 15, 1997. After his novitiate and year of humanities in Cheshire, he studied a bachelor’s in Philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome from 2000 to 2002 and from 2005 to 2007, a licentiate in Philosophy. In between, he worked as a youth minister in Quebec, Canada, and he made his perpetual profession in Rome on October 4, 2005. In 2010 he completed a three-year bachelor’s degree in Theology and was ordained on Christmas Eve of the same year with 60 of his brother Legionaries by Card. Velasio di Paolis. Two of his brothers are also Legionary priests. Fr Simon is now based at the Legion of Christ seminary in Cheshire, Connecticut.
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” –– Abraham Lincoln