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ALL. EDITIONS, The Arizona Republic j7 Saturday, January 21, 1989 Religion Rouijdup Urchin or title in the bishop, saint earns eyes of his people University Drive, Mesa. "The Holy Spirit Is Here." Admission is free, but an offering will be taken. Lunder also will speak at 8 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday at the church.

"The Spiritual Path," a series of classes sponsored by the Humanity Foundation, is scheduled from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, and Feb. 10. The instructor is Sufi El Alim Akbar.

Admission is free. Music A concert by Bruce and Brenda Jackson will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Baptist Church, 2130 E. Miracles from a saint The second documented miracle occurred closer to home. On July 8, 1949, Kent Lenahan, 19, of Villanova, was standing on the running board of a moving car when it sideswiped a telephone pole.

His skull was crushed, his collarbone broken, and a rib punctured one of his lungs. He was admitted to Bryn Mawr Hospital, bleeding from the nose, ears and mouth, in a coma. Noihing could be done, doctors said. His parents prayed before Neumann's shrine at St. Peter's, and later a neighbor gave them a piece of cloth from Neumann's cassock.

Shortly after the Lenahans touched their son with the relic, he began to recover. Less than five weeks after the accident, Kent Lenahan walked, unaided, from the hospital. There are other miracles, the church says. In 1963, Neumann's remains were exhumed and examined, then they were dressed in a priest's robes and placed behind glass in the lower sanctuary of St. Peter's.

In 1977, he was declared a saint A healing and a friend Mother Teresa will bring 4 nuns to aid Phoenix poor UACHIN, from page C5 distribute Owelty's organs once he From missionary to bishop In the 1830s, in what is now Chechoslovakia, there was a glut of priests. John Neumann had finished his seminary training and was on the verge of being ordained when the bishop in his diocese fell ill. 'll Neumann signed up to become a missionary in America. He was hardly off (he boat in 1832 when the bishop of New York told him how badly he was'needed and ordained him. found after several years that the work and isolation of a diocesan priest were not to his taste.

On the advice of another missionary, he took vows as a member of the Redemptorist order of brothers. Jo the next 10 years, Neumann worked in Rochester, N.Y., Pittsburgh and finally Baltimore. He became friends with Archbishop Francis Kenrick, whose territory included the Diocese of Philadelphia. When Pope Pius IX asked Kenrick to find a bishop for Philadelphia, he nominated Neumann. The pope concurred.

"As bishop, Neumann came to Philadelphia when anti-Catholic groups were burning churches and the diocese was torn by dissension. He mniMH fnmtarA wratt'ttal IllVPnfinO IVI nuiu, piHVIIVWI .1. Catholic school education as we know it He also wrote the Baltimore Catechism, the book Catholic children still use to prepare for confirmation. was a tireless worker. Bui you would not think him an extraordinary man certainly not a man who, in his own lifetime, could be considered a saint.

An unexplained visitor If Chucky could not survive Rcye's syndrome, his parents wanted to be with him when he died. They took up residence at Children's Hospital. The family checked on Chucky every IS minutes. In between, all they could do was sit in the waiting room. I.ate one night when Chuck, Nancy and her uncle sat watching television, -a-child came into the room.

He looked poor, off the streets. He was perhaps II or 12, wore a shabby plaid jacket, had rumpled hair and wore black glasses. boy walked into the waiting Events Tu B'Shevat, the "New Year of the Trees," will be celebrated with a tree-planting ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Sunday on the Temple Beth Shalom grounds, 12202 N. 101st Sun City.

The event marks the 16th day of the Jewish month of Shevat A "Miracle Healing Revival" with evangelist Larry Elliott will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Jan. 28 at Potter's House Christian Church, located in Westown Shopping Plaza, 12628 N. Black Canyon Highway. "Circulation Day," in which goods are given free to those in need, will be held from 10 a.m.

to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 28 at Christ Church Unity, 536 E. Fillmore Tempe. The public is invited to take items others can use.

Also, people may donate items they no longer need. An art auction to benefit the Ahavat Torah Congregation religious school will be held at 7 p.m. Jan. 28 at the temple, 6816 E. Cactus Road, Scottsdale.

Admission is S2.S0. Speakers "The Secret and Public Call of God" will be the topic of Dr. Thomas W. Oillespie, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, at 9 and 11:13 a.m. Sunday at University Presbyterian Church, 139 Alameda Drive, Tempe.

"The Wisdom of China: Confucian ism and Taoism" will be the topic of Joyce Beadle, who teaches compar ative religion at Phoenix College, at 8:30 a.m. Sunday at Cuggy's in Park Central Mall at a meeting of the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix. Admission is free. "Reform Judaism and Israel" will be the topic of Rabbi Albert Plotkin of Temple Beth Israel at 12:30 p.m. Monday at the temple, 3310 N.

10th Ave. Plotkin's talk is one in a series of Torah Desserts sponsored by the temple's Senior Adult Congregation. Rabbi Herbert Silbcrman of Beth El Congregation will speak on "Conservative Judaism and Israel" at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at Temple Beth Israel.

Admission is free. Classes, seminars A Bible conference featuring Er-mand Lundcr, a professor at Lutheran Bible Institute in Seattle, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday at Advent Lutheran Church, 7310 W. Camclback Road. The theme of the conference is John Neumann medal over, rethread the other medal and attach the pin to the pillow again.

The McGiverns asked nurses and family. All denied touching the pin. Mysteries multiply On Sunday, Nancy was standing in the room when two nurses came in. Not seeing her there, one said to the other, "He's not going to make it." When she heard this, Nancy turned her face away, and there on the wall, held crooked with masking tape, as though it had been placed there by a child, was a picture of St. John Neumann.

No one knew where the picture had come from. On Monday, the doctor said Chucky had pneumonia. On Tuesday morning when Nancy arrived at 6 a.m., there had been no change in his condition, but she noticed that the relic of St John Neumann her cousin had entrusted to her was gone. The room was searched; the laundry in the basement was searched. Nothing.

Later, a nurse came to the parents. "We had a little problem today. We think you should know about it. Two doctors were working on Chucky and one looked up and saw a little boy in the doorway. The doctor asked what he was doing there and the boy said: 'I came to visit The doctors couldn't figure out how the child made it unchecked to the isolation ward.

They called security. The hospital was searched. The boy was nowhere to be found. The nurse described him. He was 1 1' or 12, wore a beat-up plaid jacket, had shaggy brown hair and wore black-rimmed glasses.

She described the boy Chuck had seen. 'Favors' from a dead bishop On Jan. 5, 1860, while walking to the post office to mail a chalice to a poor priest, Bishop Neumann suffered a stroke. In three minutes, he was dead. He was 48 years old.

He had left word that when he died, he was to be buried with his Redemptorist brothers. Because St. Peter's was the only Redemptorist church in the city, he was buried in a crypt under its altar. Almost immediately, devout Catholics began coming to the church and asking Neumann to intercede for special favors. Word was that some of those favors miracles were being granted.

Between 1891 and 1900, thousands of Philadclphians died in typhoid and cholera epidemics. Not one parishioner of St. Peter's succumbed. Many believe Neumann saw to their safety. The first miracle attributed to Neumann occurred in 1923 in Sas-suolo, Italy.

Eva Bcnai, 1 1, had acute peritonitis and was beyond medical help. Doctors said she could not survive the night. She was given the last rites. While praying over Eva, a nun touched the girls abdomen with a picture of Neumann. That night, the peritonitis disappeared.

Closely exam ining the case, church authorities determined that Eva's cure was "naturally First Ccpftf Church i vu f4.fS4 9.30 o.m. Cmjxk School for of oget 1Q.4S nv Wortitip Serwte "LETS TALK ABOUT IT Or fPP-V. 7COO W. CenfrcJ Ave. (At GtemMe Aaj Thiol in tho CunM Jen.

22nd 7:00 Pll No Admission Chirg i in aT I 444VMM to Ihe Jacksons minister on family relationships through song. Admission is free, but an offering will be taken. Italian pianist Luca Burini wiQ perform at 4 p.m. Sunday at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1407 N. Second St The $5 cost includes refreshments.

Send announcements of activities, seminars and concerts to: Religion Roundup, Religion Editor, T(ie Arizona Republic, P.O. Box 1950, Phoenix, Arte, 85001. were familiar to members of the ordefj whose nuns have taken vows to live if austerity and work with the poor. The Missionaries of Charity, with, about 3,000 sisters worldwide, operates 15 sites in the United States. The nuns for Phoenix will be drawn from, other U.S.

sites, Fushek said. ir Sisters of the order are known for their spare lifestyle, living in unhealed housing, bathing from buckets of cold water, owning only a Bible and the barest essentials, working long houri and typically also spending four hour in prayer daily. Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work on behalf of the poor in India. The Lutherans ABIDING SAVIOR (ELCAI 51S E. Tompe Rev.

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John Neumann had been face down. She unhooked the 'Jsafcty pin and turned it face up again. Shc iefi the room. When she returned, the medal was Jfjcc down again. She unpinned it and 3urjld it face up.

The third time it she was certain stre was -getting to her. She told her husband. Together, they went into the room Hind found the medal turned face 3Jown. It didn't make sense. Whoever doing it had to unhook the safety The Associated Press Mother Teresa, Nobel laureate and Roman Catholic missionary nun, will visit Phoenix as soon as she has selected four nuns of her Missionaries of Charity order to begin working with the area's poor, the Phoenix Catholic Diocese has announced.

The Rev. Dale Fushek, vicar for the diocese and pastor of St. Timothy's parish in Mesa, released a letter from Mother Teresa that says, "In January 1989, I hope to make available a few sisters to start a small house in Phoenix." Fushek said the U.S. leader of the order, which is based in Calcutta, India, visited Phoenix last summer and found conditions of poverty that PHOENIX CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY 2030 N. 36th St.

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"Mrs. McGivern, come down and see your son. He just moved!" As she and her husband waited by his bed, Chucky's fingers twitched. Then his hand reached up and touched the bolt in his head. By 8 p.m.

that day, Tuesday, Chucky was nodding yes and no to their questions; his white body had color. At 11:30 p.m., Chuck asked, "Was there a little boy in here to see you?" "Yes," Chucky answered. By 4 p.m. Wednesday, Chucky, the boy who had been on his deathbed for four days, was up. On, Saturday one week after he was admitted to the hospital he was released.

Today, Chucky is an A student at St. Martin's School. Not everyone believes in miracles, and those people are going to say Chucky just beat the odds. His Earents won't argue with that eating such odds is a miracle in itself. While in the coma, Chucky had a vivid dream.

He was in a hospital bed surrounded by his family, many Asian children who brought him gifts, and an older boy who, in the dream, was his best friend. A boy of about 12 who wore black-rimmed glasses. A week after his release from the hospital, a week before Christmas 1982, Chucky and his parents drove the Shrine of St. John Neumann to say a prayer of thanks. They were offered a tour of the monastery.

Hanging on the wall in one of the rooms was a painting of a child with shaggy brown hair. Chucky looked up, startled. "That was my best friend in my dream." The picture was of 12-year-old John Neumann. toco COMMUNITY CHURCH LNTEMPf tyoutionltiatiochuKbtrowl fen Tonorwr. Or.

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