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While Peoria’s wet and windy weather Thursday necessitated some minor changes in plans, it did not dampen a midday celebration honoring the legacy of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
Diocese of Peoria leaders and city officials came together in unveiling and blessing four street signs renaming the portion of Madison Avenue in front of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception after Sheen, a candidate for sainthood.
“These were the streets where he grew up,” said Monsignor Stanley Deptula, Executive Director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation and Director of the Sheen Canonization Cause. “As a young priest, he walked the streets of the south side of Peoria going door to door, walking around, bringing the message of the gospel to the people of his neighborhood.