Courtesy photos The Rev. Eric Burgener, a priest at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, stands with nurses he worked with at a hospital. Burgener has been ministering to COVID-19 patients more than a year, catching the virus himself in June.
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Pastor Willie Bolden of The Well of Fort Wayne and his wife, Rhonda, each contracted COVID-19. Willie Bolden was hospitalized 62 days, 35 of which were spent on a ventilator, while Rhonda Bolden battled the virus she was also fighting breast cancer. Burgener framed the N95 mask he had worn while tending to the needs of novel coronavirus patients he had visited at hospitals to remind him of the power of God.