More than 700 people – including at least 100 children – attended the third annual “Boot-Up Philly” event Nov. 4 in the parking lot of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center.
Archbishop Nelson Perez and officials working on the cause for sainthood of Father Bill Atkinson affixed signatures and seals for more than 3,000 pages of documentation on the late priest to the Vatican for further review.
At an Oct. 19 ceremony, the Philadelphia Archdiocese announced it will send the canonization cause of Augustinian Father Bill Atkinson the Catholic Church s first quadriplegic priest to the Vatican.
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