February 8, 2024 • Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
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‘The real queen’ An Our Lady of Fatima statue joined the St. Paul Winter Carnival in its annual King Boreas Grande Day Parade in St. Paul Jan. 27. A group of men, including seminarians from St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul, members of the Knights of Columbus and other supporters carried the statue and banner, plus handed out 1,200 pamphlets containing instructions on how to pray the rosary. Justin Stroh and Jeff Tupy came up with the idea called the “March with Mary” and presented it to the World Apostolate of Fatima, which sponsored the event. The statue was well-received by the crowd, said Stroh, of St. Michael in Pine Island and Holy Trinity in South St. Paul, with some gazing at it intently. “We’re all saying, ‘There’s the real queen,’” he said, noting that the parade also featured winter carnival royalty such as the Queen of Snows and King Boreas. DAVE HRBACEK | THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT
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