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Mary Stenson marks the first anniversary of Pope Francis’s death with a prayer for his repose, then turns to two figures whose stories stopped her in her tracks. The first is Sister Ignatia Gavin — a Mayo woman, a nun, a nurse — who admitted the world’s first officially recognised alcoholism patient to a hospital in Akron, Ohio in 1935, introduced Sacred Heart medallions as sobriety tokens, insisted on coffee in every recovery ward, and helped co-found Alcoholics Anonymous with Dr. Bob Smith. Three thousand people attended her funeral. The second is Fr. Aedan McGrath, an Irish missionary in China, who describes trying and failing at lay apostolate until a bishop posted him a copy of the Legion of Mary handbook — and what happened at the first midnight meeting.

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