Five third-grade students sat around a table at Hoover Elementary School in Dubuque on a recent morning, listening as their teacher Lisa McGrane discussed the literary technique of cause and
Seated at a small table in Dubuque’s Presentation Lantern Center, Ana Gonzalez-Paredes ran her finger down a piece of paper listing words such as “between,” “on,” “next to” and “above.”
Although Juan Diego lived nearly 500 years ago, Santiago Crispin de Jesus always has felt a connection with the indigenous Mexican peasant to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in 1531,