From the stjude.org web site:
More than 50 years ago, Danny Thomas, then a struggling young entertainer with $7 in his pocket, knelt in a Detroit church before a statue of St Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes. Thomas asked the saint to ￢ﾀﾜshow me my way in life.￢ﾀﾝ
His prayer was answered, and soon he moved his family to Chicago to pursue career offers. A few years later, at another turning point in his life, Thomas again pra...
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From the stjude.org web site:
More than 50 years ago, Danny Thomas, then a struggling young entertainer with $7 in his pocket, knelt in a Detroit church before a statue of St Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes. Thomas asked the saint to ￢ﾀﾜshow me my way in life.￢ﾀﾝ
His prayer was answered, and soon he moved his family to Chicago to pursue career offers. A few years later, at another turning point in his life, Thomas again prayed to St. Jude and pledged to someday build a shrine to the saint.
Throughout the next years, Thomas￢ﾀﾙ career prospered through films and television, and he became a nationally known entertainer. He remembered his pledge to build a shrine to St. Jude.
In the early 1950s, Thomas began discussing with friends what concrete form his vow might take. Gradually, the idea of a children￢ﾀﾙs hospital, possibly in Memphis, took shape. In 1955, Thomas and a group of Memphis businessmen who had agreed to help support his dream seized on the idea of...
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