Mission pilgrimage cancelled again as grotto damaged First Nations representatives lead pilgrims to the grotto during the pilgrimage in 2015. The annual event usually attracts thousands, but due to the pandemic and recent fire damage it has been cancelled two years in a row. B.C. Catholic file photo Mission pilgrimage cancelled again as grotto damaged By Agnieszka Ruck, Canadian Catholic News July 19, 2021
VANCOUVER The largest annual event in the Archdiocese of Vancouver, which draws thousands of Catholics to a historic site in Mission, has been cancelled for the second year in a row.
Ryan Murphy, an organizer of the pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Lourdes grotto, said someone attempted to set fire to the historic Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes July 4, and a string of vandalism including graffiti, smashed doorknobs and even bullet holes have recently been inflicted on the property.
Nurse Administers COVID Vaccine to Cancer Doctor Who Saved Her Life 20 Years Ago
On 12/17/20 at 4:05 PM EST
When Cyd Begnaud showed up to work on Thursday morning, she didn t expect to give a COVID vaccine to the man who helped cure her breast cancer. As a line of health care workers filed into the room for the first round of Pfizer vaccines, Begnaud welcomed her former oncologist to her station and gave him the immunization.
Begnaud, a part-time nurse at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette, Louisiana, was diagnosed with breast cancer 20 years ago yesterday, and her family claims the doctor saved her life.